Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Conklin has designed a versatile buff-colored unit set. There is a balconied building to the right, with a console-supported bust ornamenting one wall. To the rear stands a gateway and wall. In the center is a rectangular cistern, which, with the dropping from the grid of a canopy or crucifix, can be covered in a trice to become Juliet's bed or Friar Laurence's altar. A few chairs and round tables turn the building into a sidewalk cafe, with an organ-grinder on hand to increase authenticity...
...American women, manufacturers are producing several variations on the minibikini. Alexander's department store in New York has a version with a peek-through top. Cole of California Executive Jack Healy claims that his firm has "engineered the String differently so it will be wearable." The rear half of the unrefined Rio version, Healy says, "keeps creeping toward the center, and the wearer has to tug at it all the time...
...offensive development that will enable the U.S. to launch a limited first strike and knock out Russian missiles, thereby leaving the Soviets unable to launch a second in retaliation. The Russians will undoubtedly try to match the advances, thus triggering yet another escalation in the arms race. Warns Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of the Center for Defense Information: "If both sides have a first-strike capability, the world is a tinderbox." But Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, advised his colleagues to give President Nixon "running room" and bargaining chips...
...mainly about the weather. Still, Prince Charles "made me feel at ease," said Laura Jo Watkins, 20. She was describing how she first met Charles when his frigate H.M.S. Jupiter visited San Diego last March. At an official reception, blonde and voluptuous Laura Jo stood in for her father, Rear Admiral James Watkins, U.S.N., and his wife Sheila. Last week she found herself listening to some more of Charles' talk. As his guest, she sat in the Strangers' Galleries at the House of Lords when he made his maiden speech, 16 minutes on the need for recreational facilities...
...Joseph Alsop that the North Vietnamese understood only force, and Eastern Liberal James Reston that he was straining to keep the Pentagon hawks at bay. Aboard his Air Force 707 on an early round of his Middle East peace shuttle, Kissinger would shuffle to the press cabin in the rear to tell the 14 reporters in his entourage that ALSTEAD the negotiations were, on successive days, 75%, 90% and nearly 100% completed. Though the figures were highly arbitrary, they were reported, and many of the newsmen felt that the momentum they generated helped get the talks moving. Says Westinghouse Broadcasting...