Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Western Europe, tanned, crew-cut boys and golden girls in ponytails reluctantly faced up last week to the end of the prodigal summer, began settling back into the familiar patterns of work, family and school. Listening to their nostalgic tales of Stockholm love affairs, or bikini-and-bistro living on Spain's Costa Brava, their elders brooded over the appalling deficiencies of Europe's younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with...
...Bikini swimming suit, which made a coy appearance on some beaches last summer, will make a big splash along U.S. shores next summer. At least, the swimsuit makers think so. At their showing of suits for winter resorts and next sum mer, makers ranging from big Catalina, and Cole of California, to Manhattan's petite Margaret Pennington, were plainly convinced that the Bikini, and two-piece suits in general, will be the brief thing to wear. Reasons: the rise in private pools, the step-up in travel to Europe, which has broadened the U.S. woman's taste while...
Makers offered Bikinis that can be converted by a drawstring or tabs to more modest two-piece suits, as well as matching cover-up jackets and slacks. California's Rose Marie Reid called her convertible "the Bikini with a conscience...
Stifled Yawn. Greta Garbo slipped into a royal blue bikini and plunged into the Mediterranean from her Cap d'Ail villa. Sir Winston Churchill and Maria Callas, the prima of prima donnas, cruised offshore in the yacht of Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis. The young Aga Khan, fresh from Harvard, kept happy a chateauful of guests, including pretty Tracy Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl...
...scene to gladden even the most jaded cruise director. The open-air movie was filled to capacity with a bronzed, relaxed audience. In the swimming pool near by, energetic types were splashing away at water polo. From the "Bikini" bar came the clink of glasses and the hum of bar babble, and in the soft glow cast by indirect neon lighting, palm leaves fluttered...