Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pickets who were parading outside and carrying signs with such labored slogans as NHU DEAL is NHU DIEM GOOD. They pounded on the doors, splattered the building with eggs and rattled the windows while she spoke. Inside, things were not much better. When Mme. Nhu, sheathed in brocade and silk and trailing a mink stole, complained that "Americans in Viet Nam do not live like us ... austerely like us," the crowd of 1,700 hissed loudly...
...will offer much more; for all his ringing words, De Gaulle cited no future aid figures. Yet Iranians, who in the past have had their differences with Washington over the amount and type of U.S. aid received, were pleased to be wooed by De Gaulle. Loaded with gifts of silk Persian rugs, the regal invader prepared to fly off at week's end, apparently having impressed his host. Slightly starry-eyed, the Shah predicted that De Gaulle's visit would produce "good things, maybe marvelous things...
With a rustle of rich brocade and a swish of scented silk, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu swept into the U.S. last week. She was accompanied by her handsome, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, and preceded by some of the worst press notices since Tokyo Rose. Although not even her bitterest critics would doubt her courage, the petite sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem did have some fears about her 21-day coast-to-coast visit. Going to the U.S., said she, would probably be like walking into "a cage of lions...
Bobby's Business. For being "it" around the Senate, Bobby got $19,612 a year, and his wife got another $11,757 a year as records manager for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Bobby always dressed well (black suits with vest and silver silk tie). But few realized that he was becoming wealthy-at least not until July 1962, when Bobby and two partners opened a $1,200,000 luxury motel in Ocean City, Md., advertised it as a "high-style hideaway for the advise and consent set," and kicked it off with a champagne party. The inauguration drew...
...five Cahaly brothers grow up in Damascus, Syria, "the oldest city in the world," Ralph boasts. Their parents worked in a silk mill. Mike, "10 or 12 years older" than 60-year-old Ralph, came to America in time to fight in World War I. Ralph arrived in 1920, at the age of 17, and found his first job in a Liggetts drug store. The brothers opened a small grocery store in 1922 on Oxford St. in Cambridge, but after six years made a fateful move. All of their four succeeding stores were on Mount Auburn St. Old graduates...