Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, have been both amused and convinced. The latest, Oliver Jensen, lets the camera make his sharpest comment for him. His picture history, The Revolt of American Women, chronicles more than half a century of rapid change which carried the female of the U.S. species "from bloomers to Bikini-from feminism to Freud." In text and captions, Author Jensen shines up an old masculine brief to new brightness, i.e., that the fight for equality began as a war between the sexes and ended up as a civil war within modern woman's psyche...
...Shaped Blast. The first Bikini A-bomb tests established his reputation for sagacity on a shoestring. Disdaining the elaborate, expensive apparatus that his U.S. colleagues set up to measure the blast, Penney filled 1,000 empty gasoline tins with sea water and sealed them with cardboard flaps. When, as he predicted, the bomb knocked out the official instruments, the amiable Briton studied his crushed cans, measured the lost water, "did a bit of a sum" and came up with the answer. The U.S. offered him four times his $8,000 salary as chief of Britain's armaments research...
...Naples last week went a blackberry-haired Turkish beauty named Gunzeli Basar. Seventeen connoisseurs picked her from a field of twelve as Miss Europe of 1952, even though her rivals protested that the competition was not fair-Gunzeli refused to appear in the last-ditch Bikini suit which is what Europe's best-undressed beauty queens wear these days. Miss France, the runner-up, remarked darkly: "Her thighs are not well modeled." But Gunzeli steadfastly stayed in her (relatively) conservative bathing costume and the judges stuck to their decision. Said Miss Europe, disdaining the movie contract offered...
...tendency to cover up has not spread to bathing suit styles. Streamlined, one piece lastex suits provide the active swimmer with beauty and durability. Both Bikini and more highly styled models have also continued their appeal to feminine swimmers...
...arrest in a shocked Boston 42 years ago when she introduced it. On hand as technical adviser was 64-year-old Annette herself to help with the facts and with Esther's 28-bathing-suit wardrobe, which includes fluffy bloomers and sleek, skintight numbers, but nothing in the Bikini line. Annette believes the Bikinis "expose some of the less graceful parts of the anatomy...