Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson freshman team tests Concord High at Concord today, and on Thursday the varsity visits Holy Cross. They will be at least one spectator short in each instance...
Hartman is a member of the Board of Directors of Urban Planning Ail. Ine.. of Cambridge, a group of planners which has worked with residents of Roxbury threatened by highway and housing construction projects. He was also a member of the Committee for Radical Structural Reform, a short-lived caucus of graduate students and junior faculty members which last spring opposed expansion by Harvard in Cambridge and Roxbury and demanded that the University build low-rent housing. The Corporation subsequently announced plans for low-and moderate-rent housing projects in both areas...
...determined to establish better relations with his Communist neighbors to the east, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt last week dispatched his chief foreign policy adviser, Egon Bahr, on an urgent mission to Moscow. And what happened? Bahr's plane was fogbound at the Cologne/Bonn airport. After a short delay, however, Bahr finally arrived in Moscow and spent six hours conferring with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. There was no indication whether the talks, which resume this week, would be any warmer than Moscow's - 15°F. temperatures...
...Paris last week, and the spring fashion collections proved the usual circus: patrons clawed for chairs, models for air and buyers for exclusive rights. Over all, suspended in the salon air like a huge, equivocal cloud, hung the crucial question: What of the miniskirt? Would couturiers give it short shrift, lowering hems to midi and maxi lengths? The answer, by week...
Emanuel Ungaro remembered the mini fondly in a series of short, pleated skirts but covered most with midi-length coats, while Jacques Esterel's "he and she" collection featured tunics all round, ankle length and so narrowly cut as to be equally hobbling for either sex. Courrèges lowered his sights with a floor-length black vinyl apron atop flaming red briefs. (It is not the most practical outfit, but that did not seem to matter when Raquel Welch modeled it.) Mostly, Courrèges fell back on the old jumpsuits, made of vinyl and stickier than ever...