Word: plaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tights and leotards have passed the fad stage, and some manufacturers report shipments running 30% ahead of last year. To go with the tights, stores are pushing boots with raccoon trim, corduroy or plaid coverings. Back-to-school teen-agers have also taken to some nonclothing fads. Among them: plastic-coated textbook covers with zany titles such as "Embalming Can Be Fun," by "Maude Lynn...
...list of "Unbest" Dressed Men, London's Man About Town magazine predictably named two iridescent outlanders -Elvis Presley and Liberace-and not too surprisingly added a member of Britain's Establishment, chronically rumpled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But one nominee was as shocking as plaid socks with a dinner jacket: the Duke of Windsor. The editor's appraisal: "I'm afraid he's got older, and fashion is really a young person's thing. Maybe it's the influence of the Western Hemisphere...
Ripe for Laughs. In a red plaid sports cap and corduroy trousers full of holes, the bird man was soon out on Commonwealth Avenue collecting crowds in skeptic ranks. In his hands he carried what looked like two thin aluminum cricket bats. Around his neck was a lanyard from which dangled a long aluminum tube. The trees were ripe with starlings; Mount Vernon was ripe for a laugh...
Cultural Genocide. The illegal radio strongly backs the program of eloquent, poetry-spouting Gwynfor Evans, 43, president of the Plaid Cymru (Free Wales) movement. Plaid Cymru gets about 10% of the total Welsh vote, but has never yet elected a Member of Parliament. Among its grievances is the fact that the British government allows free campaigning privileges on the government-owned BBC radio and TV only to parties putting up at least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide...
Jauntily turned out in glen plaid suit and lemon shirt, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller went through one buoyant morning's routine in the State Capitol at Albany. He presided over a swearing-in, sat on the carpeted floor with delighted schoolchildren visitors, charmed a delegation of Methodist churchwomen. Cracked he, as a photographer posed a group portrait: "I have to be careful who I stand behind. My wife sees these pictures, you know." Amid the badinage, Nelson Rockefeller did not betray by so much as a flicker of an eye the fact that his reputation...