Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardin's time of 24:59:4 was his best ever on Van Cortland's five mile layout, but he thought he could have gone much faster. "I was holding back when I passed Jim (Baker)," the soft-spoken musician said afterwards as newsmen gathered 'round, "but it felt really good...
...mineral deposits at depths of several miles. Archaeologists could use higher frequencies to search for buried cities. Oceanographers may well map the ocean floor in the same way. And at frequencies between 1 and 10 megacycles, diagnostic holograms may some day chart not only tumors, but soft areas of the body-such as muscles, blood vessels and brain tissue-that can not be usually seen with standard X-ray techniques...
...down to the names of the plumbers. He was able to reproduce exactly the original straight-backed chairs with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had worked on the Auditorium as an 18-year...
Huggy Feeling. The gown is made of soft metallic brocade in a muted floral pattern, has short sleeves and a deep, slotted decolletage that can be hooked shut modestly or opened all the way down to a softly pulled obi sash in front. "If you feel sexy, you can open all the snaps," says Jean Tailer. "And if a woman has any figure problems, the dress disguises them." "I'm sick of the flowing dresses that have been around-I love the huggy feeling this dress gives your figure," says Noreen Drexel, who wore hers to dinner...
...also a sample of the kind of dress that has made debonair, soft-spoken Oscar de La Renta, 34, the most talked-about and envied new young designer. Born in the Dominican Republic ("Most of my family were diplomats; my father was in insurance"), Oscar opted for art, switched" to fashion in Paris, where he designed for Lanvin before coming to the U.S. to work with Elizabeth Arden. On his own for only two years, in September he picked up his first Coty American Fashion Critics Award ("Winnie") as the best U.S. designer...