Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garter. As the loudspeakers blare the sort of martial music that would have stirred Von Ribbentrop, Bertha von Paraboum for the first time turns to face the audience fully, and there, serving as a G-string, is a swastika. Victoria Nankin is billed as "the Yé-Yé Widow." To show her grief, Bernardin has veiled her nude form with large black dots, achieved with lighting. All she does is remove a filmy gown, sit up, and hold her arms like a sphinx. But that is quite enough...
Textured stockings are nothing new (noblemen and chorus girls have worn them for centuries), but only in the past year have they become more than an occasional lark for a far-out coed or a conversation piece for a starlet in need. Now, to the yé yé sounds of the Frug and the Monkey and the fashions that dance along (high high boots, short short skirts and cut-out shoes), manufacturers are moving fast to get them on the counters again...
...Young Democrats have announced that Martin Luther King's speech will begin promptly at 3:30 p.m. Sunday night. According to Peter H. Weiner '65, Y-D program chairman, no seats for special guests can be reserved after...
Certificates for Christians. The Y goes out of its way to respect Jewish customs. Its restaurant is closed only one day a year, Yom Kippur, and bar mitzvahs are regularly reported in the monthly bulletin. Although the Moslem chef does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...
...Jerusalem Y's diplomatic ways are also respected by Jordanian Arabs. By acting as an unofficial consulate that issues certificates of religious affiliation for Christians wishing to go through the Mandelbaum Gate to the Old City, the Y has become one of the few sources of communication between the sectors of the divided city. In fact, it is generally so well thought of that next spring it will dedicate a new Y building in the predominantly Christian Arab town of Nazareth-with money raised in part by Israeli and Canadian Jews. Says Minard: "I'm optimistic about...