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...exemplified in Calvin Klein's spring/summer collection. The paradox is that classic clothes end up looking like thrift shop purchases within a few steamy hours. One of the hottest-or coolest -fabrics around is Indian gauze, dyed with eggplant, saffron, cucumber and other natural substances, maybe even curry powder. Indian fabrics were among the highlights of a huge sales promotion of Indian merchandise mounted by Manhattan's Bloomingdale's last April. The material is so popular in New England that the Rhode Island-based, 80-store Touraine chain expects to sell 50,000 Indian gauze garments this...
While Paxton may have the putting touch of a Swiss watchmaker, he can also powder the ball with the best of them. In the warmer climes of Paducah he regularly drives 280-290 yards. In a practice round before the NCAA Qualifying Tournament, he hit a humongous seven-iron onto a 228-yard par-three ninth hole...
...violation and driving without a license. Last week he had another round with St. Louis cops. Spotted driving into a restaurant parking lot at 4 a.m. with the lights out, Spinks was stopped by police. Again, no license could be produced. Worse, police found a small sack containing white powder tucked in Spinks' hat, which he tossed on the roof of his car while he was being questioned. The hero of fisticuffs was then snapped into handcuffs to be investigated for possible drug violations...
...bombs. The word derives from the Greek bombos, meaning a deep hollow sound. In the earliest known use of the word in English, an anonymous translator of a Spanish treatise described in 1588 how the Chinese used "many bomes of fire, full of olde iron and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme and destroy their enimies...
Sources say the police "turned the premises inside out," finding small quantities of marijuana in one suite, and marijuana and thai stick in the other. Police also confiscated vials of unidentified pills and powder for laboratory analysis. Police made no arrests...