Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles of jet, gold and silver; John Moore of Talmack has a sequined muu-muu that is more froufrou than a tutu, while several other designers are going in for encrusted chiffon, quilted gold lamé and damask...
...escort of plumed horsemen clattered alongside her limousine as it drew up to the palace, and white-stockinged footmen, right out of a Mozart opera, lined the stairs. In the Chambre de la Reine, Jackie slept in a bed just vacated by Belgium's Queen Fabiola, bathed in a silver mosaic tub that had been installed for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and gazed up at a ceiling swarming with Napoleonic cherubs. At the first formal reception, more than 2,000 top-ranking Parisians sloshed through the rainy night for a glimpse of the porcelain princess from America. After shaking...
Died. Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell, 80, silver-haired, scholarly psychologist who founded Yale's Clinic of Child Development in 1911 to study abnormal children, soon realized that too little was known about normal children, spent the rest of his life observing them and writing about them in more than 25 books; of pneumonia; in New Haven. Conn. In his three best-known works. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, The Child from Five to Ten and Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, which were translated into 25 languages, Gesell explained behavior patterns from cradle through adolescence...
...latest list of scientists honored by the Vatican ranges across creeds and nations-from Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Sir James Chadwick, 70 (Church of England), to Hideki Yukawa, a Buddhist Nobelman from Japan.* Each man will receive a silver-gilt chain and medallion, and each will rate the Vatican title of excellency. From the Pope will come parchment proclamations addressing the Catholic scientists as "Dear Sir," the non-Catholics as "Famous Gentleman." And the varied salutations will be eloquent testimony to the Pontifical Academy's current catholicity of choice...
...silver bullet that struck down the Emperor Jones of the Dominican Republic, but a volley of machine-gun fire. Still, like his fictional counterpart, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina will be mourned only by the relatives and friends who joined him for more than thirty years in plundering and misruling an already-poor country. Unfortunately, the power vacuum left by the Dominican dictator, coming as it does in the midst of a Caribbean Whirlpool, only adds to the quandary faced by the United States, and by all of Latin America...