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...girls have shining hair, and they wear colorful, skintight ski pants the year round, while the boys are usually beardless and strong-featured in their bright, V-necked sweaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Young City | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...against police lines in Elisabethville during the recent anniversary celebrations of the Congo's three tempestuous years of independence. The Katangese were not rioting against the central government in Leopoldville, they were pushing forward to hear the pulsating rhythms of twelve musicians dressed in frilled scarlet shirts and skintight black pants. It was Africa's favorite native musical group, the O.K. Jazz Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Tom-Tomcats | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...eccentric who used to own this place," Ward said. "I'm going to have it filled in." An elaborate practical joker, Ward often put a dog collar around Christine's neck and led her around London on a leash. Some times Christine received guests wearing nothing but skintight blue jeans, once gave a party at which all the guests sat drinking champagne in her bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Goddess of the Gravel Pits | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, 48, used to push pink, but that was before he went into politics. Visiting Manhattan, the originator of those skintight Capri pants had to hurry right home for last-minute speechmaking as a Liberal Party candidate for the Chamber of Deputies. "I am running, but I am not interested in the office," he said. "I just don't want people to vote Communist." Win or lose, Pucci was doing his bit for capitalism. His high-fashion models handed out bright silk scarves with the Pucci signature and the slogan "Vote Liberal"-and Florentines were peddling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Actually," she tells her audience, "I'm here on missionary work for the Tax Department." She wears, at times, a skintight gown with a huge rose of ribbon on her derriere. She runs her hands down her sides. "It's about the size of one leg of Jackie Gleason's trousers," she confides. Then she's off into song, with an impression thrown in-of Elizabeth Taylor, for example, singing I Cain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Tax Missionary | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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