Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sundays), De Gaulle changes from striped pajamas to one of the ten double-breasted suits (navy blue, black, or charcoal grey) chosen and laid out by his valet, scans the morning papers and listens to the 8:15 news broadcast before crossing the hall to his office in the Salon Doré, also on the Elysée's second floor. The room is furnished with a Louis XV desk in front of a white marble fireplace. Near by is a globe, a table with two phones-one for communication within the palace, the other an outside line...
Bite and Breadth. There could be no better place for a solitary boy to explore; there was a baroque staircase in one courtyard, set with "superfluous little landings with niches and benches." There was a hinged portrait in a salon, which swung back to reveal a trophy room hung with "guns ranged in big racks, ticketed with numbers corresponding to a register in which were recorded the shots fired from each. "There were, each summer, strolling players who would politely request per mission to perform in the theater. When someone went for a walk, there was a carriage assigned...
When a well-heeled Manhattanite who knows her high fashion goes shopping for footwear, she might choose between three of New York's fanciest shoe salons-I. Miller, Henri Bendel, and the Delman Salon at Bergdorf Goodman. What she probably does not know is that all three are operated by the same manufacturing and retailing giant-Genesco, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn...
...hear her tell it, Italian-born Cora Galenti had found the Fountain of Youth. She even gave the name to her Sunset Boulevard salon. There and at her lavish Hollywood home she treated thousands of women and many men. When they went in, the skin on their aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made...
Judging from the enthusiasm of the thousands who poured into the Salon de 1'Auto, Europe's carmakers had hit the right note. So long as the economies of the Common Market nations continued to prosper, Europe's man in the street seemed only too ready to do the Detroit twist...