Word: scarf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy now faces an irrevocable U.S. commitment, and as a result, Saigon of late has had a spring in the step and a sparkle in the eye missing for years. Its visible embodiment is jaunty, popular Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, 35, who has moved with verve from scarf-clad air force commander to chairman of the board in the military collegium now ruling the nation. Ky is the closest thing to a national hero that South Viet Nam has and wherever he goes in Saigon, admiring teen-agers gather round...
...moves into a dingy Greenwich Village apartment, hits the showier Village bars, tries an affair with a melancholy Village music teacher. It all seems pointless. Maybe abroad? "Rubbing your backside with a colored scarf and squirting wine out of goatskins?" Hopefully he hops off to Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around in cafés with the local American beatniks, even goes off to Morocco for awhile to see if marijuana is the answer. And slowly he discovers what all sensible people know: that all the world over, hips are duller than squares...
...Colin Chapman, had signed up for the race, and Clark reckoned he might as well make the most of t. So he did. Squirming into No. 82, a tiny, 1,250-lb. Lotus painted "unlucky" green and powered by a 495-h.p. Ford engine, he tied a white silk scarf around his face and proceeded to put on a display never before seen at Indianapolis. He led for all but ten of the 200 laps, broke some sort of record practically every time he tooled around the 21-mile course, lapped the entire field twice, averaged 150.68 m.p.h...
...hatters have added some crucial undercover work. To give the scarf a lift and banish the babushka look, milliners have concocted a hatlike frame of stiff net. Over the frame goes a kerchief, with the ends either knotted at the nape of the neck or softly folded in front. The result: the scarf hat, a runaway bestseller that can safely be placed on freshly set hair and is often well worth wearing for its own stylish sake...
During the pre-Easter buying spree, scarf hats sold out all over Manhattan, from $65 Adolfo-designed abstracts on a high-crowned framework to a wide assortment of slightly stiffened cotton prints for less than $10. For the hat industry, the Manhattan sellout was a happy harbinger; although New York usually initiates fashion trends, the big town is not as big a hat town as St. Louis, San Francisco, Boston, Washington or Chicago...