Word: vested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
...trivia, including old copies of Esquire, FORTUNE and The New Yorker, a collection of Popeye lamps, Old Gold cigarette posters and bound volumes of Superman comics. Merkin adopts the look of the past as well as pasting it together; he owns seven white, plaid or pinstripe suits (all with vest and broad lapels) and 175 ties (mostly pink and lavender), parts his hair like a Van Heusen shirt model, sports a Groucho Marx mustache and smokes Murads...
...items intended for outdoor and public use emphasize how relatively rare and experimental are such attempts to beautify the cityscape. The instances include Cambridge Seven's Boston subway turnstiles and New York's $1,000,000 vest-pocket Paley Park (all necessarily shown in photographs only). Scholars of the 30th century may well conclude that, like the Greeks and Romans, urban Americans turned inward from their streets and sacrificed freely to the household gods, glorified their public squares and buildings, but left the ordinary thoroughfares to stray cats and garbage collectors...
...major" requests for help each week. They come from adversaries of imminent threats, such as a freeway that would desecrate the waterfront of New Orleans' Vieux Carré, and advocates of quixotic quests, such as preserving the Warrensburg, Mo., courthouse, where in 1870 George Graham Vest voiced his Eulogy...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...