Word: wool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bits and magnetically extracts the steel to produce a 97%-pure scrap, offering a hope that most of the nation's automobile graveyards can eventually be eliminated. Fly ash is converted to make lightweight bricks, panels and construction blocks. Celotex is using blast-furnace slag to make mineral wool...
...bubble gum-and his mouth is still so squiggly that it looks as if the bubble had burst. What's more, he now sports a glossy something on his summit that adds at least five inches to his altitude and looks like a swatch of hot buttered yak wool...
...Pamela Tiffin, the bitch in Dinner at Eight, showed up at Manhattan's Ground Floor restaurant wearing her beige, green and pink Tiziani suit. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, entertains in a shocking pink Adele Simpson suit. Jacqueline Kennedy has ordered a beige-and-white wool suit from Valentino; Barbara Paley, wife of CBS Chairman William S. Paley, has ordered hers in black velvet...
...contributes to the vogue. Whereas men, in 150 years of pants wearing, have managed to add little more than cuffs and a crease, women in the past few years have rung changes beyond belief. Trousers come belled or straight, hip hugging or waist level. Materials range from daytime wool, gabardine or leather to evening silk, velvet, lame and brocade. Jackets are single-or double-breasted, come to the hips, to the top of the thighs, to the knees...
...first woven was Le Brun's series on The Elements, which ransacked classical mythology to celebrate the events in Louis XIV's reign. One of the most famous, L'Air, drew from the full range of the factory's 79 colors to depict, in wool, gold and silk threads, Juno, the goddess of marriage, rebuffing Boreas, the god of the north wind in Greek mythology. Courtiers understood that the real subject was Louis' marriage to Marie-Therese of Spain, which had brought to an end France's 25-year war with that country...