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...work cautiously" to avoid creating absurd situations. They will doubtless arise anyway. What about the woman pilot who aspires to be an airlines captain? Or the man who loves kids so much that he applies for a job as a nanny? The male homosexual who would like to fit bras for a living? Hardly more farfetched is the case of two prostitutes, Jeanette McDonald and Hattie May Smith, who have appealed convictions in Oakland, Calif., on the grounds of sexual bias. They were discriminated against, say they, because the male customers who were with them when they were arrested were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Employment: When Is the Difference Unequal? | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

Twelve Harvard students pulled a panty raid on burlesque queen Hope Diamond last night, but the panties and bras came on hour late, Miss Diamond never came at all, and no one seemed too happy about the whole affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Came to Purloin Her Panties, But Hope Diamond Was Not There | 11/24/1965 | See Source »

...real danger ahead. Competition should mean lower prices, thus bigger markets. The biggest reason for optimism is the European consumer. Though synthetic-fiber production has doubled in five years, the average Frenchman still owns only two suits, and the average German woman still buys half as many girdles and bras as her U.S. counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Catching Up with Synthetics | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Quintessence in a Tent. At the advance showing last week were giant tapestries from Poland, motorized mechanical sculptures made out of scrap iron and continuously-tuning radios by Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, and batches of Latin American assemblages glued together out of such rummage-sale remnants as sequined bras, false teeth, rubber gloves and old shoes. There was pornography from Holland by Johannes Oldeboerrigter (painted genitalia piled on platters) and pornography from Sweden by Ulf Rahmberg (comic-booklike engravings of copulation). There was a Uruguayan artist named Carlos Paez who offered a circus happening in a black tent with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Biennial Bash in Brazil | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

Except, of course, to the opposite extreme. In the new undergarment collections, slips, half-slips, panty girdles, panties and bras are stirringly designed to be seen as well as to gird. Bright stripes, polka dots and designs are all over, lending underwear new snap, crackle and also pop. There is a panty brief with a printed-on image of an oversized zipper that never expected to or could get zipped, another with an American-flag motif. A third has a pair of eyes that wink from the rear, shed a tear in the front−virtually demanding comment from hasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: FASHION Zip-- and Also Pop | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

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