Word: vests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Velvet Vest. Her statuesque beauty was set off with enormous hats from which dangled a ribbon that the French then called "Suivez-moi, jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless...
...corporate form. The present sole owner, shy, retiring Alfried Krupp, 57, merely presides over the firm, leaving the energetic, extroverted Beitz to run the company through a streamlined four-man Direktorium of his handpicked aides. Alfried shows no signs of ending Beitz's stewardship, but he may eventually vest ownership in a family foundation. Indeed, it is possible that this huge one-man company may heed the advice of many German bankers and sell its shares to the public...
...reluctance to abide by the constitution and resign as head of the junta six months before the Sept. 26 elections. One night as he was driving to Cochabamba, a gunman on a motorcycle roared out of the darkness, pumping bullets into the general's Jeep. Barrientos' bulletproof vest, say his aides, stopped two of the slugs; a third hit him in the left buttock. In no time at all, political and nonpolitical friends were beating a path to his bedside. A fellow general who had planned to challenge Barrientos' candidacy hastily withdrew. Other powerful officers rallied round...
...Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely a diligent studier. A tooler at the University of Texas is a showoff, the equivalent of a cake-eater at Detroit's Wayne State, and a vest at George Washington University...
...ARMOR. A new vest of overlapping plastic plates covers all vital body areas and weighs only 4 Ibs. It protects against all thrown objects, grenade and mortar fragments, and bullets moving slower than 1,000 ft. per sec. (which includes a wide variety of small-arms fire from anything but point-blank distance). Men who wear it, says Colonel Applegate, are much more willing to "close": they will perform countermob duties more aggressively...