Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live macaw. Handsome though it was, the display merely hinted at the real splendor of the original hoard. The Silver Plate fleet, commanded by Captain General Don Juan Estéban de Ubilla, bore silver and gold worth today's equivalent of about $14 million, together with Chinese silk and porcelain and a sumptuous set of jewelry intended for the bride of Spain's King Philip...
...tradition of wearing top hats in the clubroom and during performances; many members nowadays think it is too pretentious. Anyway, ever since last year, when one high-hatted member was mugged while en route to the opera, there has been the feeling that to wear a silk topper is to invite trouble. Nor do members wear opera capes; too many wise guys shout "Batman!" or "Phantom of the Opera...
Sato's key opponent for the post is former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, 69, a dapper industrialist-idealist who is known as "the silk handkerchief" for his dilettantist ways. Running against Sato for the leadership in 1964, Fujiyama won only 72 votes of 476 cast. In this week's election, he hopes to crystallize latent discontent within the party and win 150 votes or more; another faction has already decided to cast its 70 votes neither for Sato nor for Fujiyama but for its own leader. Together, those defections might cause trouble for Sato in next year...
...especially fetching getup was Shirlee Mae Fonda, 34, Actor Henry's wife, who kept everybody wide awake by appearing in her pajamas. Shirlee Mae had a grand time at the ball, and assured anyone who asked that she had no intention of sleeping in her white silk nighty-nights designed by Chester Weinberg. She was going to put them away "to save to wear to something big, like a premiere...
Long Arm. Suddenly last summer, Kuntze was shipped home. This month the Navy was ready to outline why. In a World War II barracks at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, Kuntze went before a court martial to face charges of importing bolt upon bolt of Thai silk and other fabrics into Viet Nam "in excess of his demonstrable personal need," illegally converting $12,000 worth of Vietnamese piastres and U.S. military scrip into dollars, and-possibly the most offensive of all sins to his shore-based seniors-installing Jannie as his mistress...