Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlotte." The wedding next day was a simple civil ceremony in the Fifth Avenue apartment of Mother Anne. The bride wore a knee-length white silk gabardine dress and a small matching open pillbox headpiece on her shoulder-length blonde hair. Uzielli was dapper but informal in a cuffless grey worsted suit and silver silk tie. With just 15 members of the families looking on, the vows took precisely ten minutes. Said Judge Frederick Strong, who performed the ceremony: "It was just a little longer, a little more elaborate and, I hope, a little more meaningful than...
Died. George H. Dixon, 65, author of the syndicated "Washington Scene," a grab bag column of nonpolitical cocktail-party and press-conference observations appearing daily since 1944; following a heart attack; in Washington. Sometimes sharp, more often corny, Dixon took aim at "the guy in the silk hat," up to and including the President of the U.S., which led him to describe 1965 as "the year of incision" and L.B.J. as "the abdominal showman...
...exhibition next month at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, took nearly six months and $4,000 worth of materials to complete. To capture the spirit of the revolution, Rivers forced tangible and intangible images into juxtaposition. A real rifle, a sculpted wooden rifle, a painted rifle, silk-screened images of photographic rifles -all toy with vision. He inserted a real machine gun, glued real pencils to Gorky's desk, painted over still photographs of the revolution, added real plumbing ("It looks like a mysterious Rube Goldberg whisky still," he quips) to the section on Soviet industrialization. The final result...
...legs are doing more than their share of the walking in present-day Thailand. In increasing numbers, the women of Thailand are abandoning the sheltered life of the home to pursue careers in business. For all their delicate femininity - their diminutive, porcelain prettiness, their singsong voices and their flowing silk robes-they have proved to be tough businesswomen whose impact on their country has already been extensive...
...mechanized mannequins. For the 20th year, Christmas trees will divide Park Avenue for 62 blocks with a band of light. At Herald Square, Macy's windows add an Eastern accent with some 200 animated figures, ranging from girls dancing in mosques (a practice not allowed by Moslems) to silk-garbed courtiers watching performing jugglers. Across the street its archrival, Gimbel's, counters with a real-life Santa who descends a wooden chimney every 15 minutes, talks through a microphone to the kids on the street, and-of course-invites everyone inside. Even the minor squares are dressed...