Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter was in a talking mood. Sitting in the wood-paneled den of his house in Plains, wearing a long, yellow, velour sweater and white sneakers, Carter had his feet crossed on top of his desk. Beside him, balancing thick black notebooks full of Cabinet profiles on his lap, was his young aide, Hamilton Jordan, in a sports shirt and safari jacket, looking just as casual as his boss. Jordan slid his red canvas chair next to Carter and handed over one of the books, reading along with him so closely that his head was almost touching Carter...
Wind recounts how "at the Commonwealth Tournament, at St. Andrews, in 1955, for example, his aesthetic sense was appalled by a sweater with a repeating pattern of loud, clashing yellow, pink, black green and violet vertical stripes, which one of the Canadian players wore. Darwin kept himself well under control for a while, but finally went up to the Canadian and asked, 'I say, are those your old school colors or your own unfortunate choice...
Baubles That Blink. Elizabeth Taylor's jewels sparkle. Lou Rawls' pendant and Joe Frazier's sweater pins merely blink. The singer and former heavyweight boxing champion are early addicts of a new kind of costume jewelry that is fitted with special electronic circuits and powered by a hearing-aid battery. A small Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They...
...what I've been waiting for." The aircraft had been used as one of several Air Force One presidential jets; it was the plane aboard which L.B.J. took the oath of office after John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Carter roamed the plane in a cardigan sweater and knit slacks. Studying Ford family photos gracing the cabin walls, he joked: "I ought to have on my three-piece black suit." His elevated status was symbolized by two small acts: Carter carried his scuffed spare loafing shoes on the plane; an Air Force steward carried them off. After...
Throwing a sweater, a toothbrush, a Nat Sci textbook and a pint of Jameson's Irish Whiskey into a duffel bag, I headed out the door under the cloud of that typical all-nighter feeling. It was not to be a typical day, though, as I relaized upon stepping out into the grey early morning...