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No Great Splendor. At home, she dresses informally in the kho, the traditional Sikkimese costume, which is an ankle-length jumper that wraps around the waist and is worn over a blouse of contrasting color-cotton or wool for the daytime and silk in the evening. She uses cosmetics only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sikkim: A Queen Revisited | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Candy is based on the Terry Southern-Mason Hoffenberg satirical novel in much the same way that an elephant might be based on a mouse. All that is left is a smear. Candy (Ewa Aulin), a teeny-bopper who seems to be mentally retarded, is molested by a series of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Old Men | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

For the elders, President Nyerere's sackcloth socialism has produced an official austerity seldom matched in Africa. Members of Parliament are forbidden to own shares in businesses, cannot be corporate directors, and must forfeit their salary of $160 a week if they have any outside income. Only beer is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanzania: Battle of the Minis | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

ALAN HEIMERT is everything he is incidentally, in his spare time and a bit against his better judgment. At thirty-nine he can't quite decide what to make of himself. He dresses like a careless football coach and lives in a palace of oiled woods and lush fabrics; his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alan E. Heimert | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Rowan, who was divorced in 1959, lives sedately with his second wife, Adriana, 26, a former model, in a spacious three-bedroom apartment overlooking the harbor of Manna Del Rey. The garage below houses four cars (a Mercedes-Benz roadster and sedan, an Austin-Healey and a Corvette). Berthed at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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