Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead of the fancy Teflon bags that hooked to their sides) and even a nylon whisk broom to brush off the clinging lunar dust...
...have a good, integrated neighborhood," she says. "Now I have to drive my boy to a movie he's walked to all his life. It's wrong to lump them all together. My black neighbors on the street are very nice. Everyone's out with a broom. They want us to stay, but it's heartbreaking because we're going to lose each other. You can't force integration down people's throats, because it hasn't worked here. I feel like a displaced person...
...single man personifies the violent change in Hollywood, it is Aubrey, who in October became MGM's third president in eleven months. They called him "the Smiling Cobra" when he was president of CBS-TV from 1959 to 1965, and at MGM he is to be the new broom-or ax. The company he took over was in paralysis after three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that Aubrey decided were poor...
...shave the heads and bodies of his two models. "Hair hides a lot," explained Gernreich, "and body hair is too sexual. I don't want to confuse the idea of freedom with sexual nakedness. Openness and honesty call for no covering of any kind." For Thomas Broom, 30, Rudi's male model, the prospect of all-over alopecia held no horror: "I've wanted to shed my hair for a long time. I have this theory that when I do, I will shed other things too-maybe my inhibitions." But Renee Holt, 22, approached her barber...
Dramatic as the rehearsal was, the actual show this week should have even greater impact. Plans call for the two models, wearing their unisex clothing, to mingle with 200 formally attired, champagne-sipping guests on the spacious first floor of the Butler mansion. After taking off their tank tops, Broom and Holt will linger awhile and then ascend a circular staircase to strip to the buff in full view of the onlookers. "It's a shock thing," Gernreich admits...