Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cardin went to China and received permission to stage two fashion shows there in March. When Teng went to Japan his wife and the wives of four other officials on the trip were turned out in trimly cut silk jackets and pants, an elegant change from the monochrome Mao suits that were for years the Chinese woman's revolutionary uniform...
...Garland. Among the items on the block: Garland's copy of the musical arrangement of Over the Rainbow, a pair of loaded dice given to her by Humphrey Bogart (purchased by Actress Lily Tomlin for $1,200), Judy's The Wizard of Oz scrapbook, and the beaded silk jacket she wore at Carnegie Hall. The highest sum -$60,000-was shelled out for Garland's 1953 black Mercedes-Benz 3005 coupe. Total take: $250,000. Would the star herself have approved? Says Sid Luft, Garland's third husband and the initiator of the auction: "Judy would...
Personnel-wise, the Terriers are without the services of their best line until the New Year. Center John Bethel is out with a knee injury, and wings Dave Silk and Bob Boileau are serving detention for disciplinary problems dating back to last spring...
...modeled after Tiberius' villas on Capri. The table was authentic Chippendale, the service gold leaf, the goblets and tableware gold. A chamber trio played. Among the guests: a history professor, a concert pianist, the wife of a German philosopher. And beside her: a young actor in a shimmering silk T shirt with a yo-yo appliqued on its front; the guests all deferred to him as he discussed his hit TV show. The yo-yo's weekly salary was something more than the yearly income of nearly everyone else in the room, and they knew...
...Manhattan's silk stocking district, William Green, an heir to the Grand Union supermarket chain, retained his seat in Congress by defeating Democrat Carter Burden, a scion of the Vanderbilt family. The pair spent $850,000 on the race, about half from their own fortunes, seeking a job that pays $57,500 a year...