Word: pastel
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...rest of the Festival houses are modern, pastel colored, and eye-catchingly shaped. Of the twenty or so buildings, however, only the Royal Festival Concert Hall will be permanent. Supposedly, the Hall is as acoustically perfect as any building, intended to seat 3,300 spectators, a symphony orchestra of 100, and a choir of 250, can be. The Hall wears a double skin; inside the first wall there is another, the aim being to keep the building's concert hall completely free of outside noise. The double wall will even make it possible to tune the concert hall...
...hear Donald S. Dawson tell it, his record was as clean as the fur of a royal pastel mink. But Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright thought he detected some spots on the pelt...
...property by forming a partnership and splitting a $25,000 fee. The fee was split with Herschel Young, a fellow Missourian who was an employee of the War Assets Administration and a brother-in-law of Mrs. Merl Young, the ex-White House stenographer, who got the famous pastel mink coat...
...last week White House Stenographer Lauretta Young put on the cloth coat she had been conspicuously wearing of late, and quit her job. Her ownership of an $8,540 royal pastel mink coat, which was conveniently financed by a Washington attorney who specialized in federal contacts, titillated the Senate investigation into RFC influence-peddling last month (TIME, March 12). To hear Presidential Secretary Joe Short tell it, Mrs. Young (after working for Harry Truman since his senatorial days) had simply decided "to devote more time to domestic duties...
...damage to his party by a White House secretary in a pastel mink coat and an ambassador to Mexico in soiled linen...