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...strength," says Rosewall, the master tactician and most durable of the pros. "He can play even the most difficult shots with simple strength. And he's got age on his side." Relaxing in Cleveland last week in a blue and pink striped Pierre Cardin shirt, blue velveteen blazer and color-coordinated bellbottoms, Lutz attributed his sudden rise to a newfound confidence. "Tennis is 70 to 80 percent psychological," he said. "After you beat Rosewall or Laver once, you say to yourself, 'I can do it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lots of Lutz | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

They came in dusty pickup trucks and rattling secondhand cars. Old women in velveteen skirts and turquoise bracelets filed nervously past young men in tight Levi's, sunglasses and cowboy boots. Trim coeds talked with old men in shabby clothes and tall black felt hats. Judged by any criterion-age, dress or deportment-the student body that recently turned up for the opening of the Navaho Community College at Many Farms, Ariz., was as varied as could be found on any campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Pride of the Reservation | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...literally and tediously. When the play turns from sociological truisms to comic treatment of the manners of society, Albee is back in his own milieu. Richard Kerry's bland, but tasteful, set locates the action inescapably in a living room in modern suburbia -- right down to the inevitable green velveteen furniture. Richard (Robert Fox-worth) and Jenny (Jane Cronin) act like they just stepped out of a Raleigh commercial. In actuality, they are the kind of people who smoke bad cigarettes only because they are so deeply in hock that they depend on the coupons. Although Albee struggles through...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Everything in the Garden | 1/14/1969 | See Source »

...Imported velveteen baby-doll dresses in glowing colors! Beautiful girls, handsome swains, happy Christmas holidays are in store for you if you shop at KITTY HASS, 42A BRATTLE STREET. Holiday dresses, short and long, fantastic jewelry, scarves, ties, and gifts. Wassail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

Arrivederci, Baby! Across the screen on twinkle toes comes skipping one of the cutest little velveteen-agers the public has seen since Freddie Bartholomew turned contralto. He has big brown eyes and pretty brown bangs, and in that silly-frilly Little Lord Fauntleroy suit he doesn't look a day over twelve. He does look familiar, though. No, it can't be-Tony Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Bluebeard | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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