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...mink tent that Actress Elsa Martinelli wore over a sequined bathing suit at a Paris play opening. French, Italian and American designers practically all featured winter-weight capes last fall: those sent down the runways for spring are cut in breezy chiffon, ordinary denim and even terry cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: All Cloaked Up | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...Gamble's throwaway Pampers, which enjoyed a lion's share of the estimated $200 million market last year. "If you were a baby," goes one sample ad, "what would you want to wear-soft, cuddly cotton or stiff and sticky plastic and paper?" The pitch stresses that cloth diapers, unlike disposables, are reusable, a point bolstered by New York City hospitals, which complain that the disposal of plastic-lined diapers-either by burning or dumping-adds to the city's pollution. All this may seem regressive to young mothers who hate washing cloth diapers and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

American has cut the 4? cost of laundering each washroom towel by switching from cloth to paper. By eliminating the more expensive blue cloth towels and going to all white, Eastern is saving $10,000 a year. The line has also adopted a unisex philosophy in passing out toy pins: formerly the wings given to girls were marked "Stewardess" and those given to boys were stamped "Pilot." Now they say "Eastern Air Lines." Savings: $9,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Does Your Flight Seem Different Lately? | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...century Westerners. Instead, they turn the conventions of the Western into a series of burlesque gags. Candice spends half her time trying to seduce the virginal Strauss-she delightedly rips off piece after piece of her disintegrating dress before eventually changing into a Raquel Welch 2000 Years B.C. wash cloth-only to resist the eager lad when he finally gets it up by demurring with a sincere, "Honus, tell me, do you really mean it?" Hell, lady, you don't go around shoving your boobs in the poor kid's face and then start preaching situation ethics...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: FilmsCowboys and Vietnamese | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

...took me 15 hours to type a 10-page paper. My room in Barnard was slightly larger than my bathroom in Adams House, and I twisted felt flowers around the exposed pipes. Tried to hide the chipping ceiling with an enormous yellow sunflower. Disguised the radiator with Marimekko cloth. And by reading period none of it mattered; all was covered with papers and clothing and dust. And the dust was impossibly threatening...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Nostalgia If It's Cold and Snowy and Miserable Out There, It Must Be Reading Period | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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