Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand-picked members of Bertrand Russell's "International War Crimes Tribunal" were all dolled up for their denunciation scene. French Novelist Simone de Beauvoir glittered in a silver lame blouse, while Playwright Peter Weiss, who had worn a corduroy jacket all week, donned a grey, striped business suit for the occasion. But all the pomp and ceremony could not add one bit of suspense to the peacenik extravaganza-or respectability to the "verdict." After nine days of canned and Kafkaesque testimony by Russell's loyal witnesses, Tribunal President Jean-Paul Sartre declared that the U.S. had been found...
...woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. "And now-here's Johnny!" called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star skipped onstage-fetchingly handsome, slat-thin, loose-limbed, and wrapped in a Continental-cut suit. "My name is Shirley Hoffnagel," he began with eyes laughing, "and I'm here to talk tonight about the wonderful progress that medical science has made in sex-change operations...
...into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes and innocence. He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects to suit a funny line-a wince that clacks like a rim shot, a wagging paradiddle indicating consternation, a flam of the head that says go, baby...
Wilson, who because of the University's mandatory retirement policy must leave the Press this year, will go to a New York publishing firm. A tall Southern combination of forcefulness and gentleness who once addressed the Academy of Arts and Sciences in an impeccable blue pinstriped suit and desert books, he has been largely responsible for the Press's increased output in such formerly neglected fields as natural sciences and the history of science...
...actor, the Man from U.N.C.L.E.; one of Hollywood's Golden Boys. The firm precise features, the lavish year-round tan, the sleek hair tipped with gray--in short, the sort of well-known, personable entertainer with whom Spencer Roberts could do wonders. In a dark blue, pin-striped suit with rep tie, Vaughn looks like a million votes...