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...fellow ski-team members at Oregon's Reed College. Established since then as one of the world's best designers of sports clothes, Pucci has a sense of style and color that makes his travel wear resplendent as well as resilient. Pucci's stretch silk now passes for brocade, is used in ball gowns and bikinis. His six-ounce, pure-silk stretchable separates (skirts, slacks and overblouses, each $49.95) and dresses (V-necked and cap-sleeved or round-necked and long-sleeved, loosely belted sheaths, all $99.50) must be dry-cleaned, but patterns and colors...
...cultural dependence on the U.S., and Canada strongly opposed U.S. intervention in Cuba. But the Kennedys soon melted the Canadian ice. At a formal state dinner for 100, every head snapped around as though at parade-ground command to admire the entrance of Jackie Kennedy in her pure white silk sheath. At the following reception for 500, her husband deftly fielded all topics, talked wheat with a Saskatchewan reporter, education with a college girl, trucks with a transport official and freedom of the press with a publisher. The wife of Defense Production Minister Raymond O'Hurley told Kennedy that...
...feature editor. Eugenia Sheppard: "Husbands even say that the little nothing is just a misnomer for that little rag." The little-nothing effect is often contoured to the individual buyer, thus cannot really be mass-produced. Nonetheless. Seventh Avenue is putting out inexpensive copies of the little nothing in silk and crepe for as little...
...Republican Congressman from the Democratic Bronx, was proposed. Sniffed one Republican: "Who the hell is Fino?" Also mentioned were: New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, 56, who has never run for important elective office; Representative John Lindsay, 39, an attractive, consistent vote getter from Manhattan's Silk Stocking District; and Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Nelson Rockefeller's four brothers. But Whitney, Lindsay and David Rockefeller were all reluctant to make the attempt...
Buttoning Up. Challe paced the lobby of the building, puffing furiously on his pipe. Salan shivered from the cold. His wife kissed Salan, tied a white silk scarf around his neck, helped him into a trench coat and buttoned him up like a child. The two men walked out to a convoy of the ist Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, climbed into trucks with their troopers and drove off into the night...