Word: lamed
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...Alfred Vanderbilts, the William Fulbrights, the Kennedy brothers, and rafts of diplomats and fashion plates, the audience of 3,800 first-nighters provided a show-stopping spectacle of animated finery. The total weight in diamonds and emeralds alone could have sunk Cleopatra's barge, and the gold lame could have papered the Met walls. On the whole, the fashion was strictly haute, although here and there a kooky costume or two dazed the 3,000 or so beholders who checked over the operagoers as they arrived. The wife of Met Tenor Jess Thomas, for example, was decked...
Most of those who have that right are the lame, the aged and the nonproductive, whom Castro does not want anyway. Since the U.S.-sponsored Havana-to-Miami shuttle flights take out only 850 a week of the 200,000 to 300,000 Cubans who want to get out, the stranded Americans might have to wait four to six years-unless Fidel dreams up something new that he can barter them...
Julie Christie, who stepped from her Cadillac with a bored-looking, beatle-mopped chap named Don Bessant, was dressed, prophetically, like an Oscarette in a gold lame pajama suit. Kim Novak slinked by in something that looked like a sequined American flag, while Julie Andrews wore a red-orange wool broadcloth with a deep-V "wrapped front" and a 30-karat topaz pendant...
...impossible for all but the lame or diseased to drop out of Harvard without being drafted. The "year-off"--for the student who is fired as well as the voluntary leaver--is dead and will remain so until the Selective Service Act is revised or the Vietnam war ends...
President Johnson, who knows an impossible job when he sees one, stayed on the Podernales an extra day. It was the first time a President had skipped an opener since lame-duck Dwight Eisenhower put in an extra day's golf at Augusta...