Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bikini, and two-piece suits in general, will be the brief thing to wear. Reasons: the rise in private pools, the step-up in travel to Europe, which has broadened the U.S. woman's taste while relaxing her modesty, and the huge increase in dieting to keep in trim. More women can afford to show more of their figures. Says Neiman-Marcus Buyer Sally Tutt: "The Bikini will be a big thing this year for sun and fun. The well-traveled waistline has been going up and down since fashion de-emphasized the bosom, and the spotlight...
...Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student at Moscow University. Mostly back home, Mrs. Khrushchev keeps house in their trim villa, frequently talks to groups of fellow veteran Communist women, since 1957 has turned out increasingly with her husband at Kremlin receptions, trying out her growing knowledge of English on foreigners with sentences like: "Travel is so educational...
Most businessmen do not think that the high cost of borrowing will choke off the boom. Corporate income taxes today trim the real cost of borrowing money by as much as one-half, with the result that the effective cost of borrowing money is still lower than at many other times in U.S. history. Moreover, a borrower who really needs the money is not likely to quibble about half a point...
Tights and leotards have passed the fad stage, and some manufacturers report shipments running 30% ahead of last year. To go with the tights, stores are pushing boots with raccoon trim, corduroy or plaid coverings. Back-to-school teen-agers have also taken to some nonclothing fads. Among them: plastic-coated textbook covers with zany titles such as "Embalming Can Be Fun," by "Maude Lynn...
...stores in burgeoning suburban shopping centers. To spark its superstore and self-service programs, Woolworth's in 1954 picked a lifetime employee named Robert Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim, quiet-spoken Bob Kirkwood, 54, did so well at the job that he became president and chief executive officer in 1958, when James Thomas Leftwich moved up to chairman (Leftwich resigned three months...