Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...
...Hershfield, so maybe Screvane is of Italian-Irish descent and married to Limerick-born Bridie McKessy-but "he has a Jewish heart." Although by no means assured of his own party's nomination, Screvane went on the offensive against Republican Nominee John Lindsay, attacking him as a "socialite, silk-stocking Congressman" and as "the boss-backed candidate of the Republicans, who masquerades as an independent...
...Italy to select his fabrics. He has the lace re-embroidered with silver and gold, the chiffon treated to produce a raised velvet pattern, the dress wools interwoven with rows of iridescent paillettes. Often he designs his own: one year it was photographs of raindrops screened onto fine silk, another time it was magnified butterfly wings...
...vice president, also showed up awearing of the green (chiffon, one shoulder). As guest after guest floated in with the same model, smiles stiffened, eyes glazed. Fascinated, society editors began to keep score. They counted 15 to 20 women wearing identical or indistinguishable gowns (at $160 for the Starr silk-chiffon original, $80 for a rayon copy...
...boss, 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...