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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...padded. Last year there were wails of "fix" when a Miss United Kingdom won the contest for the second straight time, and this year's Miss World competition didn't promise to be much more ladylike. When the winner was finally chosen in London's Lyceum Ballroom, green-eyed Miss Malta shrieked: "The judges must be blind!" Not at all, though they did show a certain lack of foresight in picking Miss India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria, 23. The new Miss World isn't especially interested in the title. Collecting her $7,000 prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 25, 1966 | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...week ago Tuesday night, while Republican Governor John A. Volpe was holding a reception in the Louis XIV Ballroom, across the hallway in the Empress Room was Lt. Gov, Elliot L. Richardson '41 and his people, and down the hallway was the Democratic State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane. Two friends of Crane's, on the way to his reception in the Princess Room, stopped by Volpe's celebration. They watched the TV cameras, listend to the band play "Louis, Louis," gulped down a glass of punch, and left. On the way out, one turned to the other and said, "There...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Mirage | 11/16/1966 | See Source »

...pants quietly masturbates stage left. One little lady dangles a rope of drool from her lips, and shrieks and snickers. A squat hirsute thing (female) who looks like a drowned foetus whaps her head against the uprights of what used to be the vice-ridden Hotel Touraine's gaudy ballroom...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: Marat/Sade | 10/29/1966 | See Source »

...that she is now only a thin blonde disaster area, where once she was a fat blonde disaster area. In high school, she says, "I got to be chairman of the decorating committee for the prom. We decided to hold it at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in the Grand Ballroom. I made it look just like a gymnasium. Then what happens? I was the only girl not asked to the prom. My father is a very sensitive, perceptive person, so he said, 'Look, Lump, we'll get your cousin to take you.' My cousin! Think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Hot Potato | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Last week Soviet Dance Master Igor Moiseyev suggested that the only answer is for Russia to develop its own national political dance. "I don't want to squeeze out the West in the field of dance," Moiseyev told the All-Union Seminar of Soviet Ballroom Dancing Teachers in Moscow. "But I do wish to actively express our ideology through it." The dance, Moiseyev says, "should reflect the collectivism of the Soviet way of life in opposition to the individualism of the West, where each couple, even on the dance floor, acts as if it were alone in the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Like Maybe the Bunny Hop? | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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