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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splendidly uniformed Grenadier Guards that their behavior was "not only ridiculous but unmilitary" when they rode into battle on a rainy day with their umbrellas raised. Such peacockery startles the 20th century male, who trembles dizzily at the brink of foppishness when he folds a handkerchief into the breast pocket of his sack suit. The rich man of today dresses more plainly, if anything, than his short-form employee, and there are social observers who theorize that the tycoon tries to be inconspicuous because he feels guilty about his wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beau's Art | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...breast stroke went to an 18-year-old University of Michigan freshman named Dick Nelson, who, say swimming coaches, is just getting the knack of his difficult stroke, despite the fact that he set a meet record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: American Wafer Bugs | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...medley (butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke, freestyle), Stanford Junior George Harrison, 20, won in 4:28.6 to better by 2.6 sec. the fastest time ever recorded for the event and earn high praise from Yale's Coach Emeritus Bob Kiphuth: "Technically the greatest all-round swimmer in the world." Behind Harrison was Sophomore Lance Larson of the University of Southern California, who himself was .5 sec. under the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: American Wafer Bugs | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Psychiatrists stress that one of the biggest elements in smoking is oral gratification, an unconscious return to the breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Back to the Breast. Just why do people smoke? Almost everyone has a theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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