Word: spring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protects out-of-town newspapers against premature release of fashion stories by papers in New York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted out. It is against the rules for anyone to preview the fashions before the press-week release dates...
...release date. Pink with rage, the Couture Group sent "pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign, it was barred from the group's style shows. Unperturbed, Elizabeth Howkins tapped private sources, last week ran a story about next spring's styles (heavy on geometric designs, skirts like "deflated melons"). "It's ridiculous," said Editor Howkins, "to observe such release rules." To that, newsmen in other fields could only say amen...
...with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged question before air time...
...accepting Project Awareness, the Regional Congress, held at Dartmouth last weekend, "discussed informally" the Harvard-initiated proposals to encourage a written debate on the theme topic in student newspapers of member colleges, and to submit to a general student referendum on each campus the resolutions of the Region's spring Plenary meeting...
According to Zagat, the chances are quite favorable that the Region will accept the debate and referendum plans at its spring meeting, and that New England will send to the August National Student Congress in Minnesota delegates backed by both informed and openly expressed student opinion on NDEA...