Word: sheaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth's horizon, they were able to determine their position in space and demonstrate that astronauts can navigate without the aid of a computer. In an experiment for the Defense Department, they tracked the payload of a Minuteman missile, took infra-red measurements of the plasma sheath of ionized air that was created when it plunged back into the atmosphere below them. Another experiment, communication with earth through a laser beam, was only partially successful. After several fruitless attempts, the astronauts spotted the blue-green beam from a laser-transmitting station in Hawaii, aimed their own beam toward...
...another group of invited guests, the Dove was soon flying high. The dancing began to Cole Porter records, but that was not what the gang had come for. "The fastest music you've got," ordered Jackie. She shed her sleeveless ermine jacket to reveal a glistening white crepe sheath, did the frug with John Barry Ryan III, the Watusi with Dance Instructor Killer Joe Piro. "All my nieces and nephews do these dances so well," she said. "I'd like to do them well too." Said Killer Joe later: "She's best at the twist. The other...
...when she walked into Bergdorfs in her trench coat, "everyone looked funny at me." Then she came out to show off two other Streisands, one a gamine in slacks and sweater and short hairdo ("like Nureyev"), the other a coolly elegant woman in a simple black sheath that displays the sophistication of 22 going...
...some dazzling competition with a turquoise-and-white-striped evening coat over a turquoise-and-white-striped long dress, but Sculptor Marilynn Karp outstriped her by running her black and white stripes from dress to stockings to shoes. Painter Jane Wilson was completely optical in a sleek, hooded sheath of white organdy, delightfully dizzy in disks of black and grey. Magazine Editor Pat Coffin wrapped herself in a giant silk stole of peristaltic black dots on a white field that was designed by Painter Bridget Riley, whose op offerings in the show were titled Current and Hesitate. Teacher-Painter Ruth...
...lucrative patronage, Gloria turned up last week as the star witness against him. On the stand in Room 1313 of Manhattan's Criminal Courthouse, she was a symphony of colors and curves, all sharps and no flats. One day she sported a clinging lavender suit, another a fuchsia sheath that kept the all-male jury wide-awake...