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...their chandelier coifs, the Redgrave girls teamed up. Vanessa washed her own hair in midafternoon, then summoned Beverly Hills Coiffeur Carrie White for a comb-out and had her add a cascading fall for greater thickness. The whole business took all of ten minutes. Lynn, meanwhile, puffed up her own do as well as Mum's (Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Decline or Fall of Practically Everybody | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...local newspapers, failed to produce any response. Thompson was accustomed to the jungle, but the forest around Cameron Highlands is so thick and its trails so numerous and meandering that local authorities estimated that it would take a full regiment of men working for about a month to comb the area. The only clue came from a cook in a Lutheran-mission bungalow, who said that she had seen Thompson standing on a nearby plateau for about 30 minutes. Then, she reported, "suddenly he disappeared." By week's end, no trace of him had been found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: A Walk in the Jungle | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...contest was the North American Ski Championships; and the formidable enemy commander was France's Honore Bon net, 47, otherwise known as the Napoleon of the sport. "That can only be," disclaims the coach of the French ski team, "because I am not so tall and comb my hair to the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skiing: Encore Napoleon | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...roll. Show business moves into the newsroom, and lights dim beyond the rim of the desk. The day's debris is shoved off into the shadows. As technicians man their equipment, a makeup expert goes to work on the managing editor. At the last moment he runs a comb through his blond hair, shrugs a neatly pressed jacket over his wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero in, and CBS's Walter Cronkite Jr. begins his half-hour evening report. Now, by his own definition, his role has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Most Intimate Medium | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...after day, until the search was abandoned at week's end, the Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force combined to comb a sea corridor that eventually widened to 129,000 sq. miles. At its height, the operation involved 55 planes -eight of them from the Navy carrier Hornet-two Coast Guard cutters, and a destroyer. Merchant ships and airliners were also asked to be on the lookout. They found nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Cider Joe at Sea | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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