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Butterflies as Bras. While it took a hardheaded politician like Alexander Dubček to push through reform, it was Czechoslovakia's writers and artists who created the climate for it. Through 20 years of Communist rule, they had been more daring and less puritanical than their Communist colleagues almost anywhere else. Many of them enjoyed the privileges offered them by the party-free tickets on the national railways, for example-and went on paying homage to the approved art form of socialist realism. But Czechoslovak intellectuals have a long tradition of fighting political authority, and even under Novotn...
...graffiti that demonstrators had smeared on with ineradicable black plastic paint. Some of the protesters-who numbered 30,000 to 35,000 according to a Naval Air Intelligence count-left more personal souvenirs on the Mall. "You should see what we found out there," said one worker. "Nothing but bras and panties. You never saw so many." The only damage to the Pentagon was three broken windows-two shattered by rocks and one by a wine bottle (French, white, vintage...
...coats and dresses together," said one West Berliner. "It was all I could do to keep them from tearing the garments apart to see how they were made." Buyers were more guardedly curious about Berlin displays of women's undergarments, especially the green, blue and brown bras. "People would look at this part of our exhibit only if no one else was around," said one attendant. "They turned away if someone else came...
...when, at 28, he was idling along in a dull job as a salesman for the family firm. Struck with an idea, he designed a pair of triangles to be sewn into the droopy women's knitwear bathing suits of the day. The new wrinkle-first built-in bras ever to grace Danish suits-proved to be a standout at the beaches and a smash at the cash register...
...sugar went to the bottom." Partly because of indiscriminate eating of heavy Russian food, she has lately swelled to 132 Ibs. (at 5 ft. 4| in.), twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into a girdle; she also shuns bras and stockings, to say nothing of accessories. She doesn't own a fur coat, and about the only jewelry she wears is a man's pocket watch on a chain. "She just couldn't care less about clothes," says an old friend, who recalls that even in the days...