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...primarily up to a bubbly blonde. Hope Lange. She is the chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection of slinky bizarrities in her closet. To go auto racing with Chauffeur Glenn Ford, she slips into a pink bareback space suit; for alfresco breakfasting, Hope is a thing with feathers -blue ostrich plumes on a polka-dot peignoir. She has awful manners: she stirs her champagne with Ford's toothbrush-and licks it. But she shapes up when she lures him to an erotic booby trap of an island hideaway, with dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pink Baggage on the Riviera | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Beckley, W. Va., Grandview Amphitheater: Honey in the Rock, an alfresco Civil War drama by Kermit Hunter; a thousand thrills plus picnic facilities promised by the management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Strategists on the Grass. When Bobby blew the bugle, Connecticut's Democratic State Chairman John Bailey and Washington Lawyer Jim Rowe, representing Vice-Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson, hurried to Hyannisport for a series of alfresco strategy lessons. Each morning eight thickly padded green chaise longues were wheeled out onto Bobby's lawn and assembled in a circle, along with a long-leashed telephone, maps, charts and other paraphernalia. There Bobby, Jack and their top strategists - Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith, Bailey and Rowe - began to map out the looming campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Life on the New Frontier | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were visiting Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose pleasant summer climate and massive equipment attract vacationing physicists from all over the country. A leading topic at bull sessions, some of them held alfresco on Westhampton Beach, was the "tau-theta puzzle," which many leading physicists have been trying manfully to crack since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Law | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...around the schoolhouse and, laden with hampers and bulging boxes of food, made their way up the hogback ridge to the old cemetery. It was the annual reunion of three fertile and ancient mountain clans that go back to the beginnings of Kentucky, There, and throughout the nation, the alfresco political season was beginning. With the Fourth of July weekend the season would be in full swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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