Word: robes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moneymaking movie palaces. Skouras also took over the Fox Metropolitan theater group, rescued it from bankruptcy and wound up in 1942 as head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe, The Snake Pit and Gentleman's Agreement. Blamed for massive losses incurred partly by the $30 million epic Cleopatra, he resigned as Fox president in 1962 and later took the helm of the Prudential-Grace shipping lines...
APPEARANCE: Typical hippie type?long hair, beard, robe, sandals...
...most prized finds were a group of ornately embroidered bishops' robes made of brocade, suede and velvet, bought from the Lavrosky Museum in Kiev, U.S.S.R. "I was ready to put scissors to the material immediately," Jenny Bell says, "when I was told they were consecrated. I called the Russian Orthodox Church to have them deconsecrated because I thought people might feel a little strange wearing them." To play it safe with both God and woman, she has agreed to hand over her favorite piece, an 18th century black brocade deacon's robe, to Manhattan's Ukrainian Institute...
...operations of Congress, marveled over the extensive staffs that served its committees, and met Lyndon Johnson. He toured California and visited Disneyland. In New York, Sadat poked through second-hand bookshops until he had a copy of every book written by his favorite author, Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe). Sadat had discovered Douglas' books while he was in prison, he explained, and he liked them because "he has tremendous power and he gives faith and confidence...
...Robe Dragging. Other judges are not so able to resist community pressure or go beyond long-held beliefs. After the first Supreme Court desegregation decisions in the 1950s, many Southern district judges dragged their feet, their robes, their dignity and anything else that came to hand in an effort to slow or reverse the course of integration. In Dallas in 1960, for example, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, then 83, ruled that a plan promising complete desegregation by 1973 was unacceptable-because the school board was moving too fast. Higher courts reversed rulings in the case at least five times...