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...time, I was wearing the sharpest pair of baby blue wool booties you'd ever want to see, but I was, nevertheless, hungry for my first pair of sneakers. You know, just as a girl has to go from b??bys?x to stockings, a young boy has to ditch his booties for those very first tennies...
...first to be charmed. Yves Saint Laurent showed a staggering array of snakeskins in his most recent collection, which featured a line of python-printed chiffon dresses (Mme. Pompidou took hers to Chicago last month and wore it with a gold ser pent belt). Givenchy's snaky stretch-wool suit is already being copied, scale for scale, and London Designer Jean Muir has a whole group of satin separates, all slithery with the python pattern. America's Adele Simpson and Bill Blass have embossed the markings onto vel vet and chiffon; Halston has gone...
...LEFT the Faculty Club and went out into the cold. Auden, despite the fame and success, looking oddly vulnerable in his green wool sports jacket and rolled-down black socks. We wandered, wondering just which one of those yellow buildings was the Dana Palmer House. where Auden was staying. With some help we found it, and, with a pixie-like grin. oddly childlike on his wrinkled face, he shook my hand, thanked me, and shuffled hurriedly away...
These theatres would be kept at a controlled temperature of 15 degrees, with optional snow. Liquor and bad, overpriced hot dogs would be sold. Local high school bands and cheerleaders would strut about at half-time. The died-in-the-wool fan would have everything he goes now goes to the stadium for, plus the benefits of expert TV commentary, instant replays, and point of view cameras...
...Yazoo City youngsters, that education will inevitably be social as well as academic. Black and white youngsters at the Bettie E. Wool folk Elementary School were seen sliding together on a patch of playground ice. Black high school students casually joined their new classmates to integrate the Town and Country Kitchen, a previously all-white teenage hangout a block from the school...