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...Bra Bra & See-Throughs. No designer these days reveals more than California's Rudi Gernreich, 45, the man who shocked the world in 1964 with his topless bathing suit. No stylesetter has capitalized with more flair on the current vogue for exposure; but even his critics grant that Rudi's topless was only an incident in his rapid rise to leadership as the most way-out, far-ahead designer in the U.S. When he was inducted into Fashion's Hall of Fame this fall the sixth U.S. designer to be so honored he was hailed by the selection committee...

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

CAUSE is coordinating protests of the BRA's relocation tactics, which are threatening to dissolve ethnic power by scattering Negroes and Puerto Ricans throughout Boston. To keep political influence, leaders such as Molino don't want the ghettoes to break up. They're working to upgrade the neighborhoods instead...

Author: By John Killilea, | Title: II. The South End: 'Puerto Rican Power!' | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

...more Puerto Ricans are going to be moved from their apartments unless they are re-located in the South end," vows Tony Molino. "The people will refuse to move. What is the BRA going to do, tear the buildings down around their necks...

Author: By John Killilea, | Title: II. The South End: 'Puerto Rican Power!' | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

Known in the trade as "the Pope of Video," Sullivan keeps a sharp lookout for anything that might be suggestive. He recently disapproved a Playtex bra commercial because "we don't want to show a girl in a filmy thing on a day when everyone's been to church and all." After he signed Elvis Presley for a record $50,000 for three appearances, Sullivan would not allow the camera to show the singer's gyrating pelvis. "He may be a purist," says Comic Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Variety Shows: Plenty of Nothing | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...display in New York's Grand Central Station. Naturally, many have an advertising slant: "The White Knight cheats at polo," "Pall Mall can't spall," "Avis is Hertz's Newsweek" "Xerox never comes up with anything original," and "I dreamed I could wear a Maidenform bra-Twiggy."." There is also the one about the two effeminate Braniff pilots, one of whom says to the other: "Look, Tony, you promised I could take the pink one up today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 19, 1967 | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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