Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberators of the Independence Palace, the reply was a hail of fire. Retreating across the streets, the Communists took up positions in a half-completed hotel, killed the first two Jeep loads of U.S. MPs who raced to the scene and commandeered their M-60 machine gun. In a pattern of stubborn pocket resistance to be repeated throughout Viet Nam, it took two days to shoot the Viet Cong out of the hotel...
...their first collection in Paris, Liz contributed her own inspiration for a nuptial garment: a white body stocking worn under a diaphanous floor-length veil embroidered in flowers. But that was nothing compared with the outfit that Liz wore to the opening-a tunic and tights of hyperkinetic geometric pattern. "She's not supposed to be chic," explained Mia. "Her career requires that she be stupefying...
Against all advice, she reversed the usual pattern and switched from soprano to mezzo in 1957. Making the most of her big, warm voice, mature musicianship and canny flair for stagecraft, she was discovered all over again in the character roles of the mezzo repertory. Today, at 45, she has arrived at the point where she can not only steal the show from high-flying prima donnas but also carry an entire production herself. In recent seasons she has frequently done both, demonstrating the versatility as well as the power of her portrayals by encompassing the quirky pathos...
...Payment Pattern. The credit current runs particularly strong on campus. Wally Reid Ltd., a men's clothing store in Evanston, Ill., cheerfully opens charge accounts for Northwestern University students-although it invariably turns down applications by youths from the town. At the University of Georgia in Athens, the local branch of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank has been issuing credit cards, says Public Relations Officer Robert Clayton, "like they are going out of style." Still, some stores feel safer with nonstudents. J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, for example, extends credit to teen-agers only when they...
...require that parents guarantee payment. One exception is Detroit's B. Siegel Co., a clothing store with a policy that limits young working girls to accounts of $100 or less for the first six months-until, says Credit Sales Manager William Honig, "we see that a satisfactory payment pattern is established." Seldom does the store require adult co-signers. Explains Honig: "We're establishing credit for the young people, not for their parents...