Word: vicuna
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...Creases are sharpening, suit materials are stiffening and even thickening. The sugar coating to this bitter pill is a spectrum of new colors--but these colors would make any pill taste sickly sweet. Odd jackets in pink-and-white stripes, odder sweaters in natural-and-vicuna stripes, tight beach pants in canary yellow: the list is horrifying and endless...
...months, like dripping from a leaky faucet, the rumors dribbled out of the Justice Department: at the next go-round between Bernard Goldfine and the Federal Government, sensation would be heaped upon scandal. For accepting Goldfine's vicuna coat, paid-up hotel bills, and other expensive gifts, onetime Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams had long since paid the price of banishment from public life. Now, went the reports, the Justice Department was prepared to lower the boom on other politicians on the gift list of the Massachusetts textile and real estate millionaire...
...year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking and do not want to bother with clay pigeons; A. Sulka & Co. is selling men's handmade leopardskin gloves lined with beaver ($125). His and Her vicuna lounging robes ($1,100 a set), and an ebony walking stick topped with a solid gold handle ($550). Rocking chairs, popularized by the President, are moving well. For the bewildered male, Cleveland's Halle Bros. provides a Pandora's Box of women's things for any amount the buyer...
...finished with a three-month stretch for contempt of court and adjudged psychologically incompetent to stand trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan newsmen, Williams raffled off his vicuna...
...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...