Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark. Not to be outdone, Yves St. Laurent turned out an even more daring evening gown, then produced for everyday a series of wide-cut pants suits just possibly ugly enough to be chic. At least Lauren Bacall, on hand for a CBS-TV fashion special, thought they were. "I'm going all over New York in them," she promised. "And I dare any maitre d' to throw...
...could also have pointed to his own colleagues. William Douglas played poker with Roosevelt and advised Kennedy on a wide range of matters, including the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev and the Cuban missile crisis. Chief Justice Earl Warren served President Johnson by leaving the bench to head the investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. Thurgood Marshall joined Vice President Humphrey's supporting entourage on a good-will tour of Africa last winter...
...Goodrich Co., reflecting a recovery from an industry-wide three-month strike in 1967, plus improved distribution and marketing programs, showed second-quarter profits of $12,149,000 - an astonishing 1,105% above 1967's second quarter...
...Kebrabasa - "where the work ends." A huge gorge through which the Zambezi flows in the western panhandle of Mozambique, Kebrabasa has always been a dead end. There, according to legend, Dr. Livingstone turned around his wheezing paddle steamer MaRobert in 1858, musing that mastering the forbidding rocks would open wide the gates that have barred for centuries the interior of Portugal's second largest overseas possession...
...Portugal has set out to unlock that interior. It plans to build at Kebrabasa a 510-ft.-high, 1,000-ft-wide dam that by 1974 will generate 12 billion kw-h of electricity per year, 2 billion more than Egypt's Aswan High Dam. Eventually, the dam will become a sort of common-market grid for white-dominated southern Africa. Most of the power will travel 800-mile-long lines to Pretoria and feed South Africa's industry, but Mozambique's other neighbors, Rhodesia and probably Malawi, will get their share...