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Next door a buxom broad bounced to the beat. A cop walked over, his hip holster unflapped and tried to scowl; a battered Ford sedan puttered up the river at five knots and no one noticed. A gorilla sauntered by and everyone smiled...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Be-in and Nothingness | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

...rather than an artist, and works came out like serial scenes of a play. He illustrated a rake's progress in eight pictures, a harlot's downfall in six. "My picture is my stage," he wrote, and he made it roar with rogues in wrinkled breeches and buxom wenches in disarray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Shakespeare in Oils | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Percy Harrison, who worked in a Lincolnshire fertilizer factory, was a stranger to the pools. A farm laborer most of his life, Harrison, 52, had seldom earned more than $40 a week. He and his buxom wife Maude had raised four daughters and a son, and Maude still picked potatoes to help meet the $14 a month payments on their cottage. Harrison had seldom been outside his village, and never to London -or to a soccer game. For the first time in his life, three weeks ago he took a 140 flutter. It brought him a $1.40 windfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Dip in the Pool | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...World Cup-a buxom, foot-tall lady hefting an octagonal bowl on her shoulders-is probably the world's least artistic trophy. Without a doubt, it is the most coveted. For the unlovely lady is symbolic of supremacy in the world's most popular sport, football-or soccer, as it is known in the U.S. This week, as the teams move into the final contests for the World Cup, the world is gripped by perhaps the most severe case of football fever in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Global Fever | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Petticoat Slip. Such pseudoscientific testing of off-the-sidewalk critics has a great and growing impact on network programming decisions. Actress Chris Noel was dropped from CBS's forthcoming comedy series Pistols and Petticoats, with the explanation that she "pretested" badly. Every time blonde and buxom Chris came on-camera during the screening, there was an inexplicable plunge in the graph line that records the composite reaction of the button pushers. Similarly, negative readings caused the jettisoning of an entire subplot from Pistols and Petticoats, and the replacement of ten other projected series performers. The previewers have even assumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Panic Buttons | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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