Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brass. He favors soft colors and subtle tailoring, but once in a while he lets go with a really jazzy number in sequins or the sizzling print preferred by Mrs. William Anderson III of Nash ville, Tenn. Newest designer to hit the big league is elfin (5 ft. 8 in.) Chester Weinberg, 35, whose first collection this fall was snapped up by Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor. Among his early clients: Manhattan Socialite Judy Peabody-and Barbra Streisand...
...artillery thump into the paddies and jungles surrounding Saigon to discourage Viet Cong activity. Their explosions light up the sky and shake the city. Five miles from the downtown Caravelle Hotel, the air buzzes with "lightning bugs" -helicopters fitted out with powerful spotlights to pick out Charlie-and the soft sizzle of parachute flares. Rocket-bearing choppers and DC-3s bristling with rapid-fire miniguns patrol the perimeter, waiting to pounce...
...year of price increases, averaging about 5%. International Harvester quietly raised prices on heavy-duty trucks by an average 2.7% two weeks ago. Last week Owens-Illinois, Inc. raised fall prices by 3% on 60% of its glass containers, which package such things as food, drugs, toiletries and soft drinks. Even the Government joined the trend, as the General Services Administration upped the sales price of stockpiled tin from...
...tallest or the biggest in the world." The Svenssons were delighted to discover that American movies run continuously, but appalled at the debris under their seats. In one movie theater, Rune's feet literally got glued to the floor in the sticky residue of gum, candy and spilled soft drinks. Baseball bored him: "They just kept throwing the ball and missing it." Except in New York, visitors note, no American ever seems to walk anywhere. One English hiker set out across the Golden Gate Bridge, was chased by police who assumed he must be planning to jump...
Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...