Word: patek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fashion can be bought," said one-time Vogue Editor Edna Woolman Chase. "Style one must possess." The Thomas Crown Affair has spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...
Aided by a neighbor, Mark Patek '65, Gerhart chased the thief down Bow St. and caught him in front of the Lampoon. Miss Gillam meanwhile hailed a passing police car, and the youth was taken into custody. Gerhart modestly deprecated his heroism. "The fellow could hardly walk straight," he said...
...London, Wilson Halley, Peter Farrow, and Mark Patek, co-skippering in the "B" division, fouled out in four of the seven races. Tim Prince, sailing in the "A" division didn't fare well either, finishing fifth...
...every day, a steady stream of delegations got the green light to line up before the President and listen to his plans for Brazil. One group of farm leaders stood waiting in his office for what seemed an eternity while Quadros finished scribbling some message. Quadros' old gold Patek Philippe pocket watch ticked on the desk, beige curtains closed out the view, the ever-present portrait of Abraham Lincoln stared down from the wall. "Then," says one of the farmers, "he looked up and started talking without greeting us or asking us to sit down. We stood silently...