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There was a strong wind blowing across Syntagma Square Friday evening. In front of the Grande Bretagne Hotel, a Rolls-Royce was parked. Across its bumper was a sticker: I'M VOTING FOR CARAMANLIS. Up above, every room in the hotel facing the square was filled with parties of...
Floppy hats, furs and knee-high boots (for both dresses and knickers) were frequent accessories. To drape over the dresses, designers introduced large, loose, shapeless coats and capes ranging from cardigan-small to something approaching a wraparound bedspread.
In 1962, Evan-Picone, the sportswear firm in which he had an interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the...
The suspects are Francis Leroy Hohimer, 46, now serving sentences totaling 30 years for armed robbery in the Iowa state penitentiary, and Frederick Malchow, a onetime crony of Hohimer's who died one year after the murder in a plunge from a railroad trestle after a Pennsylvania jailbreak. The...
Oates is seldom mentioned in the list of activist women writers, but one of her favorite themes is how women fall apart through marriage and dependence on a man. Some are destroyed, like Dr. Pedersen's alcoholic wife in Wonderland. Others-like Loretta in them-survive and grow tougher...