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...defeat in 1972 that this time she should take a more active campaign role. Lately Margaret, with her elfin smile and insouciant ways, has been wowing crowds from Quebec to British Columbia-delivering informal talks in English and French, balancing on stilts for delighted children, and frolicking in a bikini for photographers at a motel pool. At a salmon barbecue in Vancouver, she introduced her husband to 1,500 whooping partisans as "a beautiful guy, a very loving human being who has taught me a lot about loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Love on the Hustings | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

Yesterday it was the bikini. Today it's the String...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The String Look | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...teaching English in Rio says, "The Tanga reminds us of a G string, and what woman hasn't at some time wished she could wear a G string?" Says a strung-up Ipanema lovely: "It's bacana [right-on]. It's more bacana than a traditional bikini if you have the right body." Most of the girls from Ipanema have the right bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The String Look | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...young gas meter reader. I call him Conrad Swibel. He says, "Oh, you gotta fight those dogs off. But every once in a while, say in the summer time, in a suburb out there, these young housewives, they're sunning themselves, you know? And she's in a bikini, you know, and her back is to the sun, lying on her stomach, and the bra is loose. And I go up close and I say, 'GAS METER READER!' She turns around, and I see a lot, you know. She says, 'Why didn't you announce yourself?!' And I say, 'Well...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Studs Terkel | 3/27/1974 | See Source »

...first distinctive changes were cautious: fluttering, real-life lashes and movable glass eyes. Later, as the times grew more daring, belly buttons appeared between skimpy bikini halves; dimpled knees and smooth, fleshy thighs flashed below microminis; nipples poked through braless blouses. Even mannequins, it seems, keep up with the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: And Now, The Group | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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