Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...
Died. Jean-Gabriel Domergue, 73, slick Parisian portraitist of beautiful women, notably Greta Garbo, Michelle Morgan and Lucienne Boyer, whom he glorified in a light and decorative style; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...Ailing. Physical and ethical ailments caused turnouts in some districts. California's Dalip Saund, a native of India, suffered a stroke, could not campaign at all, was beaten by Minor Martin, a former University of California football player. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford had accepted a $1.500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes; he was done in by Republican Ed Foreman. Washington's five-term Democrat Don Magnuson (no kin to Senator Warren Magnuson ) had been hurt by drinking, driving and marital problems. He was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Bill Stinson, 32, a salesman seeking...
...found guilty. I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have on foreign affairs." But he seems likely to lose to Rogers Morton, 48, a strapping (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.) younger brother ot Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford, who accepted a $1 500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes shortly after setting up a meeting with Agriculture Department officials now finds himself seriously threatened in his 300-mile-wide district by Republican Ed Foreman, an Odessa businessman who brings up Billie Sol at every stop...
Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman...