Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany's two major parties decided last week to form a grand coalition for the first time in the republic's 17-year history. Into the klieg lights of waiting TV cameras in Bonn's Bundeshaus stepped the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62. "We had an eight-hour discussion of all essential questions, which led to a convergence of views," said Kiesinger. Beside him, nodding approval and sealing the agreement with a handshake, stood Willy Brandt, 52, West Berlin's mayor and the leader of the Social Democrats...
With a nod toward Capitol Hill, where Montana's Mike Mansfield and other Senators have recently been debating the nation's dwindling silver resources, Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni last week observed, "They keep wondering what's happened to the silver supply. Well, I could tell them. It's all on women's backs...
...added, combined with anything and everything else that glitters, including gold, sequins, paillettes, mirrors, foil, beads and crystal. From one end of the nation to the other, the bestselling look in women's evening fashions this year is sparkle plenty, and then some. It can be seen in silver and gold lame shoes, hats, bags, evening pajamas, raincoats and even bikinis; it comes in sequined and jewel-encrusted and beaded dresses, and in silver mesh and see-through dresses with dazzling bras to go under them...
Foil & Flashlights. Gold and silver pantyleg stockings (at $4 each) are selling so fast stores can't keep them in stock. Paper silver-foil dresses, priced at $7 and $10, are even more popular in small towns than they are in the big cities. Luminescent gigantism in earrings has reached the stage where girls are turning themselves into Yule trees, dangling oversize baubles, including some with flashlight batteries that turn on and off. There is hardly a hostess going who is not somewhere aglow or aglitter...
When on the town, Lee Radziwill wears a white lame and silver-sequined dress. Barbara Howar, Washington's high priestess of mad mod fashion, showed up at the International Ball in a strapless tent dress of silver lame ribbons on net, while her best friend, Yolande Fox, came wrapped in silver tinsel threaded through ice-blu lace...