Word: silk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bertex Corporation, of Glencoe, Illinois, has begun producing and selling T-shirts and sweatshirts with red fists and "Strike" silk-screened on their backs...
...horns, which are reputed to be an aphrodisiac. For his $100, a U.S. traveler can bring home a six-color jade bracelet at $30, a 17-piece embroidered linen place-mat setting at $25, a 2-ft. by 4-ft. Tientsin carpet at $16, a man's pure silk dressing gown at $10.50, a porcelain coffee set at $6, two pairs of children's brocade pajamas at $4, a cloisonne-ware ashtray at $2.50 and a hand-painted silk scroll at $1.85. Total cost...
...Lost into a dazzling success. Now, having been promoted by the Festival's top brass to the post of Artistic Director, the 30-year-old Kahn has applied the same daring and imaginative updating to a play that is simply not sufficiently malleable. He has, in effect, turned a silk purse into...
...made a promising start on solving the Sudan's problems during a brief stint as Prime Minister in 1966-67. Just after the take-over last week, Sadik gathered with his followers in the anteroom of the holy tomb of the Mahdi in Omdurman. Dressed in a white silk galabia, he spoke in a whisper, but he professed not to be discouraged by the army takeover and hinted that there might be further upheaval. "Any coup is born with a countercoup," he told TIME Correspondent William Smith, adding, "We believe our task in the ultimate reform of the Sudan...
...distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even in the chic 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, the silk-stocking districts of Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women voters, who have made up another Gaullist bastion, gave 10% less than the 70% they mustered in 1962. Finally, and perhaps decisively, the young vote, which has recently eluded De Gaulle, was out in force: some 850,000 French in their...