Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proliferation of models, options and special features. Ford's general manager, John Naughton, boasts that "we can run our assembly plants at maximum capacity, maximum overtime 365 days a year and not build the same car twice." Ford's Torino, for example, offers a choice of five vinyl roof colors, plus 16 body colors, and 33 sets of interior trim. All that contributes to the more than $2 billion that Detroit is spending to bring out its new models, and denies auto plants the economies of long production runs of identical cars. Automen insist that they are only...
Shoulder Models. Generally, U.S. sales of handbags for men are limited to stores on both the coasts. In California, 'both I. Magnin's and Saks Fifth Avenue offer a variety of styles, ranging from a heavy vinyl satchel ($17.50) to Vuitton's convertible shoulder-strap model ($125). Gucci, credited with starting the fad two years ago in Italy, shows two shoulder models in leather and canvas (Actor Marcello Mastroianni wears his with matching pants), along with the favorite clutch bag, a steal at $69. Furrier Jacques Kaplan has a dressier number, in fur with outside pockets...
...stood with my head pressed against the window for a long time. Sometimes there would be a bit of movement and life when a student volunteer came in, breathless, out of the rain. She would take off her rainhat and shake her hair and her vinyl raincoat would sparkle with raindrops. She would move so gracefully, and so quickly. I wanted so much to talk to her. Although I knew I was like her, a student, a volunteer, I felt so far away from...
...Hornet replaces the aging Rambler. The Hornet has a wheelbase of 108 in., which makes it the biggest of the small cars. Although its price had not been announced as of last week, the car will be offered with such options as a V-8 engine and a vinyl top, which could make it one of the most expensive compacts. Early next year, American will roll out the Gremlin, which is basically a Hornet with 10 in. lopped off the back...
Just past the portals of Gallery C, a wing of one of the fine-arts buildings at California State College in Long Beach, the visitor pushed through a many-layered curtain of black vinyl and entered a pitch-black world. His only guide was his sense of touch. Through tubes and rubbery barricades, up and down gradients, past something that felt like an oscillating fur muff, the visitor groped his way. Just before emerging again into the light, he was engulfed, not unpleasantly, by a water-filled plastic mattress with a temperature about the same...