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...heels were becoming marks of style, not pregnancy, pierced ears lost the stigma of a sailor's tattoo, and gained the status of a purple heart. The change was part of a broader fashion revolution which favored Bohemia over Balenciaga, Greek book bags over alligator pocketbooks, and sandals over spike heels. Greenwich Village was invading Park Avenue; the outs were...
...first, the only girls who succumbed were ones with long, straight hair, soulful looks and knee-length boots. They generally favored long, dangling spike earrings which looked like nails hanging from their ears. But the fever began to infect others, who carry green bookbags, look earnest, and wear sensible shoes. These girls like small earrings which fit like cufflinks in the center of the lobe. As yet the illness has not struck girls who wear cashmere sweaters and stockings to class and only date members of the Porcellian Club, but their immunity will probably not last long...
...last resort for frustrated bug planters is a special mike attached to a sharp spike; driven through the wall, it vibrates with the surface on the far side. But, like esoteric radar beams that pick up the vibrations of distant window glass, spike mikes are apt to be defeated by stray noise unless conditions are perfect...
...Walls. New York-born Robert Scull, 45, paid his way through nine years of part-time college by painting signs, ran his own industrial design firm through the 1940s. He and his wife Ethel, whom everybody calls "Spike," lived in a one-room flat a few blocks from the Museum of Modern Art and regarded its paintings as theirs. "Nearly all of our entertaining was held in the penthouse of the museum," Scull reminisces. Then Scull acquired a fleet of taxicabs, some real estate, and started making money...
Stand she did, 5 ft. 2 in. tall in her spike heels, and she held her own with considerable composure. What would she do if she were President of the U.S.? one reporter asked. "My first step," she said, "would be really to inform more of the American people about the Communist danger. We should not be lulled into a false sense of security." Did her husband, and not her brother-in-law, really rule South Viet Nam? "It is the President who rules, not my husband or me," she replied. "President Diem is too authoritarian to allow anything else...