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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Sleepy Country | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...sports a 50-in. bust-bigger than Jayne Mansfield's and, strange to say, almost as voluptuously formed. What's more, even though he plays a country boy, Gordon's nails are exquisitely manicured, his teeth are expensively capped, and his wardrobe apparently includes a loincloth by Balenciaga. But he's tougher than he looks. In one scene he puts his fist through a paving stone (well, anyway, it looks like a paving stone) almost a foot thick. In another, he connects with an uppercut and rockets his opponent 30 ft. into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Werewolves | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

When Grindle, who claims to have "willed" all spermatozoa away, suspects his student is pregnant, he ships her off to Tibet. There she encounters a holy man "wearing a simple loincloth" and some unholy tourists. A number of American tourists were following him along, taking pictures of him, offering him money and bits of bread. He seemed quite unaware of their presence, however ... When a cute little girl of six was sent up to him by one of the mothers to get his autograph, he appeared not even to see her. This caused a certain amount of bitter feeling...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: This Candy Is Dandy | 5/6/1964 | See Source »

...reducing course. He weighs in at 303 lbs., and his stomach is roughly the size and shape of a medicine ball. Yet Koki Naya, known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), makes upward of $50,000 a year for practicing his specialty, and when he appears, clad in a loincloth, his long hair bundled in a topknot, he sends shivers of delight through the bobby-sox set. At 22, Taiho is the youngest grand champion in the history of sumo wrestling, one of the world's oldest sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Giant Bird | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...mature woman, lying down, squatting asleep with a child on her lap and seated on a leopard throne. Some of the figurines have grotesquely exaggerated pendulous breasts and normally proportioned thighs and buttocks; others reverse the goddess' topography. Sometimes she is naked; at other times she wears a loincloth or even a white painted robe. Says one top authority on the Neolithic period: "From now on the Hacilar figures should appear in the first chapter of any history of world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Backward March | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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