Word: undershirts
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...beginnings of a housing development on the other end. Barrie's was number 39, but he'd warned me not to look for a number: halfway down on the right, pink door, he'd said. I passed a kid on a rickety bicycle, a man in an undershirt fixing a beat-up old car. The houses, all built together, were varying shades of brown and grey showing through worn-off coats of light green, pink, yellow--none of them very distinguishable. A woman stood on her doorstep--chatting to another woman in a faded housedress, leaning on a metal railing...
...Fidel. Three hundred Cubans had been brought in to augment the Chilean security setup, so one newsman jestingly asked Castro if he was wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle in 1964 and Queen Elizabeth...
Though Wodehouse is currently considering a trip back to England, his first since 1939, he seems a bit afraid of destroying fine memories, perhaps of ringing the doorbell of a stately home and being greeted by the mistress in curlers and the master in his undershirt. "Has it changed much?" he asks in a worried voice. He looks both pleased and relieved when the answer is no, not all that much...
...Angeles and San Francisco, and has reached its full glory along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, the Fifth Avenue of the counterculture. There the variety is dazzling, further enhanced by the almost universal adoption of the braless look. Manhattan's lively East Village is another showcase for the undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races in Newport, Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr. wore a gold Superman tank top; Brooke...
...fully explained the remarkable revitalization of the undershirt. For some wearers, it is an anti-Establishment gesture; for others simply a put-on, in both senses of the word. Manufacturers are discovering profits as cheery as the shirts themselves. New York's Elaine Post, whose firm began to turn out pop undershirts in February, reports that grosses jumped from $26,000 in March to a healthy $150,000 in July. She expects total 1970 sales of more than $5,000,000, not bad for items that retail for $6 to $12-and in some versions are much less than...