Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Organization. While decrying federal "paternalism," Byrd ruled his own domain with a feudalistic hand. It was velvet-gloved, but his Virginia autocracy, known simply as "the Organization," was one of the most powerful the U.S. had ever seen. Year after year, its candidates were elected without opposition. Yet Harry Byrd was more patriarch than demagogue, and his organization gave Virginia vigorously honest, thrifty government for decades...
...three-piece wine-red velvet getup might have sold well in London's Carnaby Street. As it happened, the gear was up for grabs on more conservative New Bond Street, where Sotheby's was auctioning off a suit worn by King...
They look the part -- Cass is unbelievably enormous, enveloped in a hallucinogenic turquoise chiffon muumuu. John Phillips, the group's leader and chief song writer, sits calmly sipping something out of a bottle which is swathed in purple velvet. Idly he wanders over to a blackboard and writes on it, "Love plus hate equals life. Fear plus hate equals power." Michelle is small and beautiful; Cass leans over and whispers to her, "You should have seen your pupils dilate just now." Michelle just smiles softly. They are enjoying themselves, but not at their audience's expense; beneath their antics...
...enemy agent, Taylor discovers that he is just too nice a guy to do such dirty work. So he hires a thug to plug his victims, and starts chasing his favorite redhead (Jill St. John) around a pad that looks like the 9th Regiment Armory lined with orange velvet. The Bondoggle ends, however, when the redhead comes up with an angle as well as a wiggle, and from there out the show is a straightforward shoot...
...crowd was quiet as Mrs. Kennedy, wearing a long gold satin gown under a black velvet cape, arrived on the arm of President Pusey. She had been preceded by Faculty members associated with the newly-named John F. Kennedy School of Government, friends of the late President, and former Kennedy aides...