Word: vicuna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year, barely edging out Al Vellucci for the honor. But, with few exceptions, the plot was pretty dull, and most people sat back and waited for the short subjects. They came, in the form of hula hoops, mixed-mortality TV westerns, a talking satellite, and higher prices for vicuna coats...
Animal of the Year: The Vicuna-for its significant role of informer on the Republican Administration...
Professedly unaware that his proposition was out of place, Italian Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has occasionally fitted the well-padded form of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, offered President Eisenhower a vicuna coat (free, no strings), later decided, after he was told about Bostonian Bernard Goldfine, that the offer was still good. "It is not insulting in Italy to present a vicuna coat," explained Litrico. "In Italy it is a good material...
...most dramatic behind-the-scenes stories in recent U.S. political history. In a sense, as TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John Steele reported this week, it had been inevitable ever since last June, when a House investigating subcommittee revealed that Adams had accepted a vicuna coat, $2,000 in hotel bills and other gifts from Boston Textile Wheeler-Dealer Bernard Goldfine. In turn, Adams had interceded for Goldfine with federal regulatory agencies. President Eisenhower's original decision to stand behind Adams imposed an intolerable double standard on Administration ethics. But in the final result, it was beleaguered Republican...
Congressional Democrats had been aching for months to get back home and start pelting the Eisenhower Administration with a juicy collection of overripe campaign fruit: the "Eisenhower Recession," the "Pentagon Mess" that saw the U.S. lag behind Russia in technological progress, the "Vicuna Coat Case" involving White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams and influence-buying Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine. But last week, about ready to head for the hustings, Capitol Hill Democrats were dismayed to find that the rush of world events had drastically cut into their ammunition supply. Items...