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...leader, made one ostensibly friendly gesture toward the Anguillans. In early March after Britain had declared the islands free, the candidates for Miss Statehood, none of whom was Anguillian, were shipped over to the small island for examination by its police. The Anguillian mood, however, was unreceptive, and the bikini-clad contestants were pelted with conch shells and driven back home...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Lawyer Has Island for A Client | 12/16/1967 | See Source »

...miniskirts get any higher, bikini makers will have to retire! PHIL CARROLL Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...they are simply too hot. "Since skirts as such are really disappearing, they have to have a different look," he announced, and proceeded to prescribe either puffy bloomers or Siamese skirts with a security panel wrapped between the legs. For braver women, he offered a wicked alternative: a black bikini bottom to match the briefest tent dress ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...Graham Gallery. There sit, stand or recline ten of them, all in various voluptuous poses and assorted stages of undress. One, clad in a tank suit with a number "3" on its belly, perches on a revolving turnstile. Another, in what may or may not be a bikini top, cuddles on a brown floor rug. Still another, falling out of her low-necked dress, lounges against a lavishly embroidered sofa. The skin of each has the alabaster transparency of beeswax or some expensive face cream made with royal jelly. But their hair, their eyes, their mouths, their stiletto-heeled shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Epoxy Playmates | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes in the Kwajalein lagoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Micronesia: A Sprawling Trust | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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