Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expensive Experience. Desperately, the Hazleton Chamber of Commerce worked to keep the community alive. When a local silk plant announced that it would move to cheaper labor markets in Mississippi, 70 Hazleton businessmen signed mortgages totaling $50,000 to keep the factory in town. Within three years the plant moved South anyway-putting 2,000 people out of work. Refusing to give up, the chamber formed the Hazleton Industrial Development Corporation, raised $650,000 in bonds and contributions its first year, offered to donate $500,000 as a no-strings down payment on a $1,600,000 plant built...
...long way from the backwoods hollers of West Virginia; yet there was the First Lady in a white silk faille gown, saying: "This generation is engaged not only in a war against the poverty of man's necessities, but also in a war against the poverty of man's spirit." Then Mrs. Johnson inaugurated Manhattan's revamped Museum of Modern Art, which, as it reopened last week after a six-month, $5,500,000 expansion, looked splendidly equipped to fight in the second of Lady Bird's wars...
...week of his state visit to Egypt. He barely glanced at the Karnak temples, passed up the German-built steel mill near Cairo and even the star belly dancer at the Nile Hilton who, in deference to the Russian visitors, obeyed the usually ignored regulations by being swathed in silk from neck to ankles. Khrushchev's humor less, polemic speeches and their end less translations bored dwindling crowds in Cairo, Port Said and Alexandria...
...squad lined up 30 ft. from the prisoner, and the soldiers raised their U.S.-made carbines. The captain shouted: "Ban!" (Fire!). There was a ragged volley. Then the prisoner's body slumped against the straps, and blood began to flow over the high-necked black robe and white silk pantaloons. Pistol drawn, the captain strode forward, delivered the coup de gráce behind the left...
...they didn't look real enough." Then one day, in a supermarket, he saw a stack of boxes used for shipping Brillo steel-wool pads. He was overcome with envy and a sense of beauty. So he had a carpenter make 120 Brillo-size boxes, and ordered a silk-screen stencil of the Brillo design. He stenciled it on all the boxes, just in time for his current show at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, where they are selling for $300 each...