Word: towel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ferdinand Eberstadt, 79, Wall Street financier and one of the early masters of the corporate merger; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Once described as "a man whose manner is pleasantly abrasive, like a rough towel after a cold shower," Eberstadt was an enormously successful investment banker (F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.) and mutual-fund pioneer (Chemical Fund), but his greatest fame came from his ability to help arrange some of industry's biggest mergers over the years: Dodge and Chrysler, United Artists and Transamerica Corp., Douglas Aircraft and McDonnell Aircraft and, on the day of his death...
Yovicsin was pacing back and forth with a white towel around his neck, supervising the action. His assistant coaches were running their individual segments of the squad through drills, and there were running their individual segments of the squad through drills, and there were a few managers cleaning off balls and attending to various necessities. There was no one else around. The Band hadn't come down. The undergraduates who had been buzzing around Dillon last year were not there this time. But George Lalich's father was, and it was all pretty...
...every newborn baby in line for the de luxe set of toilet articles (talcum powder, oil, cologne, cleansing milk, soap and a small embroidered towel) that goes for $35. But those in the market for a single diaper (emblazoned, of course, with the Dior griffe) can get away for only $3; a gold safety pin to go with the Diorpers costs an extra $3. Price, obviously, is of small issue to the small issue of Morocco's King Hassan; his three daughters are regular "Baby Dior" patrons, as are Iran's Prince Reza (for whom Bohan designed...
...Apollo 10 astronauts had a simpler solution. They broke out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream and attacked their week-old beards in the traditional manner. The bristles were successfully contained in gobs of shaving cream that were scraped from their faces and collected in a towel. Said Cernan: "That's one of the most refreshing things that's happened in the last couple of days...
...Making 100 Rifles, she was so distant that Jim Brown stopped talking to her altogether. When he wanted to communicate with Raquel, he did so through her husband-even when it came to passing the salt. When a publicity photograph called for a seminude clinch, Raquel called for a towel to insert in the chest-to-chest confrontation...