Word: loincloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loincloth & Bracelet. The Special Forces came to Viet Nam in 1961. Mov ing out into the jungled hinterland where Saigon exerted little or no control, they recruited irregular forces from minority groups-mostly Montagnard tribesmen-and established fortified base camps. From the beginning, the Americans, unlike the Vietnamese, got along well with the "Yards." It is not unusual to see a Special Forces man, decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages...
...miniskirt in London had already risen as high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much cloth to make as a nice Victorian handkerchief. But the textile industry can take some heart. Mary has designed demure little matching boxer shorts for the birds to wear with their demi-minis. "They are the logical answer," she says, "for skirts so short that girls are showing everything...
TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Ron Ely slips into the loincloth as Tarzan No. 15 in a new series...
...bats and bird-sized moths flung themselves into the klieg lights. It was the Brazilian location of Tarzan and the Big River, and ex-National Football League Linebacker Mike Henry, the 14th Tarzan since the film series began in 1918, stood shivering in his thatched hut. Then, girding his loincloth, he swung wildly at a mosquito (thus marring his body makeup) and grumbled: "I took this job on to find out if the movie people really had fun. Now that I know, I'm getting the hell...
Cupped Chin. The next blow fell at the home of a near neighbor of the Prime Minister-India's Solicitor General Hem Nath Sanyal. Late one night four men broke into Sanyal's bungalow and choked him to death with a dhoti, or loincloth. Since Sanyal had been pressing corruption charges against several ministers of Orissa state, members of Parliament cried that his murder must be connected with the investigation-though Delhi's police insisted it was only a robbery attempt...