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Politeness in Boston, coy courtship in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President and the Phantom | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Benn's politics veered toward the radical left about ten years ago, when he embraced a Fabian socialism tinged with Marxism. Once coy about his ambition to become party leader, he recently declared that he "would like very much to be elected to that office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Left Jerks on Labor's Reins | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...years, Playboy has uncovered 305 Playmates, reason enough for Publisher Hugh Hefner to invite them to a grand anniversary bash. Among the 136 who came was blond Janet Pilgrim, whose three centerfolds in 1955-56 remain the individual record. Considering what her successors have been revealing, Pilgrim was positively coy. One pose, reproduced at the party, shows her wearing only a white fur stole but exposing little more than cleavage. Pilgrim's progress has been pretty good: now 45 and the mother of two teenage girls, Hefner's pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...called down to men, and played cute little pranks like getting some guy to burst into my room at 3 a.m. and jump on my bed while they laughed maniacally outside. Welcome to summer camp. One of them, Lori, was a real space shot; she babbled in a soft, coy voice and wandered about in heavy makeup, glassy eyed. The other, Tamara, was an aggressive, competitive overachiever who raved about her work, her perfect, clean-cut, overachiever boyfriend, and her virginity...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...called down to men, and played cute little pranks like getting some guy to burst into my room at 3 a.m. and jump on my bed while they laughed maniacally outside. Welcome to summer camp. One of them, Lori, was a real space shot; she babbled in a soft, coy voice and wandered about in heavy makeup, glassy eyed. The other, Tamara, was an aggressive, competitive overachiever who raved about her work, her perfect, clean-cut, overachiever boyfriend, and her virginity...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Welcome to my Night-mare | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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