Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Insert finger, tug and quaff: in those few seconds, the aluminum ring atop a pop-top can of beer or soda fulfills its function and becomes instant junk. Garbage men hate the rings because the sharp edges can cut. So do barefooted hippies and strollers on the beach. So do conservationists, who lament the litter. To at least one man, however, pop-top rings are a source of inspiration and income-and the raw material for a revival of a medieval fashion...
...Juan workshop, Designer Gonzalo Chavez, 36, a native New Yorker who calls himself Mr. Terp, has been painstakingly assembling pop-top rings into glittering dresses, vests, stoles, belts, miniskirts and maxiskirts-all resembling the mailed armor worn by warriors of the Middle Ages to ward off sword blows. Collecting the rings from rubbish heaps behind San Juan bars, Chavez files down their rough edges' and crochets them together with silver thread. It is a slow process. When he began making the pop-tops last spring, it took Chavez a day to complete a 600-ring vest 20 inches long...
Considering Chavez's labors, the price of pop-tops is remarkably low. A 600-ring vest costs $60, a 1,000-ring stole goes for $100 and a 2,800-ring maxicoat sells for $350. The most recent creation, a picture hat with a raffia band, can be adjusted into shapes that range from a cowboy stetson to a Garbo cloche, and costs $50. At those prices, the pop-tops have become the sensation among Puerto Rico's livelier...
Record Arrests. According to John T. Cusack, chief U.S. narcotics agent in Europe, it was the largest single haul ever made of U.S.-bound hashish. American agents had been closely on the trail of this particular drug ring for several months. In a second coup, U.S. agents two weeks ago helped to break up the largest smuggling operation on record. Acting on American-supplied information, French and Swiss agents arrested two of the ring's three members in Nice and Geneva. Since 1965 the smugglers had slipped an estimated $500 million a year in heroin into...
...bard of the boxing world, Cassius Clay, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, last week made it back into the ring, although still barred from professional competition for evading the draft. The former world heavyweight champion won all three of his short exhibition bouts in Atlanta, but three years of battling the courts had obviously taken its toll. The speed of his punches and his Ali-shuffle were somewhat slowed, as was his tongue. Admitted the usually loquacious Clay afterward: "I'm not in shape...