Word: skis
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Passing for Brocade. Undisputed master of the smashable dress is Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, who pioneered the idea as long ago as 1937, when he used stretch fabric in designing the uniforms for his fellow ski-team members at Oregon's Reed College. Established since then as one of the world's best designers of sports clothes, Pucci has a sense of style and color that makes his travel wear resplendent as well as resilient. Pucci's stretch silk now passes for brocade, is used in ball gowns and bikinis. His six-ounce, pure-silk stretchable separates...
During his 60 years, Gary Cooper learned to punch cows (at 13, on a ranch owned by his father, a Montana State Supreme Court justice), to draw (as an art student at Iowa's Grinnell College), to hunt, ski and skindive, and to fob off reporters with half-caricatured one-yup-manship. Some critics have said that he never bothered to learn to act. Actors who have worked with him say this: no one ever stole a scene from Coop...
...teacher of physics in a secondary school, I wish to express the interest and pleasure I took in reading your report on teaching machines. I fully agree with Komo-ski's opinion on the displacement of teachers. Every teacher feels frustrated and ineffective when faced with the problem of "getting across" a minimum body of factual information upon which subjective analysis must be based. On the one hand, he has the psychologically sound three Rs of learning: repetition, reward and reinforcement. On the other: one voice, one text and 43 minutes. The teaching machine probably...
...Nitze, 54. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, has the tough job of fulfilling one of Kennedy's major aims: coordinating State and Defense policies so that U.S. diplomacy and military power go hand in hand. Nitze (rhymes with it's-a.) can tackle a ski trail at Aspen, discuss theology with a Jesuit, and is handsome enough to divert attention from Kennedy himself at public gatherings. After graduating cum laude from Harvard. Nitze joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., where he began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later...
...Children. Three weeks ago, police tailed the two and their girl friends to Mégéve, a fashionable ski resort near the Swiss border. Raymond rented a picturesque eleven-room chalet, and they all moved in. Along with them was Medical Student Jean-Simon Rotman. who once lived in the same rooming house as Raymond. He. too. soon found a girl: a Franco-Japanese stripper named Mitsouko. The three couples lived it up in bar and bistro. When Ingelise Bodin was chosen "Miss Courcheval" at a nearby resort, they celebrated with a restaurant party. Raymond was amused...