Word: parquet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indoor tennis has been played on a lot of surfaces. First there was wood, which picked up glare like ballroom parquet, bounced the ball sickeningly fast and with a deadly skid. Then there was canvas, which killed the reflections -but that was about all. Last week, when the $25,000 New York pro tournament opened in Madison Square Garden, a vast improvement was on hand to finally make volleying under the bright lights at least two-thirds as nice as the grass game at Forest Hills. It is a thin green rubber surface, made by U.S. Rubber, that...
Back this month from a third expedition, Jenny Bell displayed her wares-kikois galore, plus 100 Spanish rugs picked up on a stop in Madrid. Handsome enough on parquet, the rugs will look even better on girls, Jenny Bell thinks, when she shapes them into evening gowns. As for her transformed kikois, this year, like last, the styles will vary only slightly-some are sleeveless, some two-piece, some shifts and some full-length. But though every kikoi has a border and a sunburst or some scroll work in the middle, the material of each is unique. Most come inscribed...
Three Leaders. Johnson's Wax has done things differently ever since the late Samuel Curtis Johnson, a salesman of wood flooring, sent along a can of wax with each parquet floor he sold 78 years ago. That proved to be a shrewd idea, for parquet dropped out of fashion a few years later, and Johnson went into wax fulltime. Today the company that he founded is led by a troika. Grandson H. F. (for Herbert Fisk) Johnson, 64, board chairman, directs marketing. Great-Grandson Samuel Curtis Johnson, 36, is executive vice president in charge of new products...
...What does your father do?" inquired Hussein, making some kingly small talk as he moved Reporter Feldman over the waxed parquet floor...
...great party. After the French champagne and the Viennese waltzes came Bopha Devi, prima ballerina of the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Sinuous and shimmering, dressed in green and gold, she danced a ritual dance in bare feet. When she accidentally dropped her ring, a woman servant slithered across the parquet floor on her belly to pick it up lest Bopha bruise herself...