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...function. The A623 was not available to the general public but only provided to high-ranking government and military officials - a fact that lead to its nickname of "the minister watch." The very first piece made was strapped upon the wrist of China's then Premier Zhou Enlai, who wore it until his death in 1976. The trusty timepiece is now on display at the National Museum of China at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. In 1964 a special edition of the A623 was released to commemorate the successful testing of China's first nuclear device...
...slim, and its snazzy signature prints are available on everything from onesies to pot holders. It's possible that Marimekko even helped usher in the Camelot era when a style-savvy Jackie Kennedy traded in her haute couture for one of the company's inexpensive summer frocks, which she wore to be photographed with her husband for a December 1960 cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. In her breezy dress, Kennedy personified an elegant ease for women struggling to define themselves...
...then a rather large woman with frizzy black hair. But Indonesia was an uncommonly tolerant place. "For someone like Ann, who had a big personality and was a big presence," says Zurbuchen, "Indonesia was very accepting. It gave her a sense of fitting in." At home, Ann wore the traditional housecoat, the batik daster. She loved simple, traditional restaurants. Friends remember sharing bakso bola tenis, or noodles with tennis-ball-size meatballs, from a roadside stand...
...Some friends came to his defense, talked about how badly he had been treated, how the bullies stole his skateboard, stole even the shoes off his feet. Was there, this time, a measure of pity for a lost boy, who seemed to have had nowhere to go, who wore a silver necklace with the word MOUSE on it, who called at least three of his friends' mothers Mom, who in the end seemed to want nothing more than to be taken seriously and to be taken, at last, into somebody's custody...
...knows, one day they could pick up a gun. Still, unless there is some fire under the lake I couldn't see, this conflict is over. The violence wore everyone down...