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...British royal family to visit the U.S.S.R. since the revolution, but she insisted on being treated like an average tovarishch while in Kiev. At the Hotel Moskva on October Revolution Street she exchanges prepaid vouchers for her meals (breakfast: salami and cheese, two boiled eggs, black bread, fig jam, coffee-$1.50). Next week her father Prince Philip and her fiancé Mark Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip's itinerary, perhaps in quiet recognition...
Women in Love. Ken Russell's lush adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel comes closer to the emotional spirit of the subject period than do any of his subsequent films, and his arty style is appropriate to Lawrentian descriptions of passion. Alan Bates tells how one eats a fig a provocative Glenda Jackson dances before a herd of cattle--these scenes are handled very well, but the social attitudes of the book are lost. Read it first...
...herself invented it (Genesis 3:7). The late Gypsy Rose Lee listed it as one of her favorite indoor sports. Leslie Uggams and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey do it regularly-and so do nearly 50 million other American women. Nonetheless, home sewing was scarcely worth a fig leaf until the late '60s. Today it is a $3 billion business, up from $1.3 billion just seven years ago, thanks to a happy combination of factors. Coinciding with rising costs and declining quality of retail clothing, there came a new widespread interest in creative handicrafts. At the same time, improved sewing machines...
With so much seminudity on the streets, it is not surprising that beach outfits have reached a new nadir in coverage. The most daring of all are the "monokinis"-topless and almost bottomless suits that have been pared to fig-leaf proportions. Wearing them takes courage, but there is plenty of that on the beaches of southern France, where women of all ages have been going topless for at least three years. Even in the more conservative U.S., predicts Rudi Gernreich, the inventor of the shortlived topless suit of 1964, "in five years people will be swimming nude in public...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft, "President Nixon is risking almost everything to gain practically nothing" because the best the Administration can achieve is a "fig leaf for defeat." On the same day's Washington Post op-edit page, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak called the President's latest move "dangerously high-risk poker," but speculated that the pot could be rewarding in two ways: by thwarting a fresh Communist offensive in the fall while keeping the Russians far enough below the boiling point to save a Moscow-Washington agreement on nuclear-arms limitations. The Washington Star, meanwhile, declared that...