Word: wraparound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western newsmen from the country. As a result, Arafat had a sizable EastWest audience for the first formal press conference he has ever held. Oozing confidence, the guerrilla leader strode into the Damascus University law-school auditorium wearing a five-day growth of beard but without the tinted wraparound sunglasses that have become something of a trademark...
...Hooray for the miniskirt! But only if it is worn by gals with gams like Cyd Charisse and the 1940-model Grable. The current crop of knobby-kneed kuties just ain't got what it takes to look attractive in that sort of stern-type wraparound. JAMES LOWRY Los Angeles...
...built-in seat, and be enclosed to the ceiling except for the entrance. Different-shaped handles, square for hot and round for cold, would permit the soapy-eyed bather to adjust water temperature without alternately scalding or freezing himself. To avoid slipping while balancing on one leg, a continuous wraparound safety bar is needed. "One can get a car washed automatically in five minutes, while it still takes us 15 minutes to wash ourselves by hand," Kira notes wryly, and predicts that sweeping technological changes are due in personal hygiene...
...West Was Won. The wraparound wonders of Cinerama embrace huge chunks of U.S. history in a spectacle that is part pageant, part shoot-'em-up and part travelogue. A stampede of stars competes with a herd of buffaloes, and comes off second best...
Hope's wedding dress was a wraparound, frost-white brocade silk mokey, held in at the waist by a gold belt, from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...