Word: nudist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since nudism has been stripped of whatever peephole provocativeness it once had, the American Sunbathing Association is now opting for an open-door policy. Under a plan recently announced by Association President Robert G. Johnston, some 130 U.S. nudist camps are emerging from their traditional reclusion. "We've decided to come out of the woodwork and operate competitive recreational facilities rather than cults or philosophical retreats," Johnston explains. "We're inviting the public to come visit us just as they would visit Disney World...
...TIME. Feb. 21). The parties range from far left to far right (one is even called the National Reactionary Movement), but some are a bit difficult to categorize ideologically. In addition to the Association of Free Merchants and the Autonomous Party of Pensioners, for instance, there is the all-nudist Naturalist Movement, whose candidate this year is Model Anna Maria Martini, 25. Proponents of acid rock, free sex, abortion and legalized marijuana can line up behind the Ippi (hippie) Party's candidate, Angelo Quattrocchi...
...Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Jimmy Hoffa and Moms Mabley. Hotel rooms in Miami were solidly booked with fans who had come to watch the Orange Bowl game as well as the playoff between the Miami Dolphins and the Baltimore Colts. The Sunny Palm Lodge, a nudist colony, reported a 25% increase in business over last year. Amid all the hoopla, the big political event of the week was the arrival in Miami of New York's newly Democratic Mayor John Lindsay, who announced that he was running for President and would enter the Florida...
Hard to Upstage. Hocker's mind slips gradually back into nudism's past, and he glowingly recalls how he became a nudist in the sedate year of 1953. That was back when he was living in Long Beach and nudism was still considered risqué. In their search for an outdoor health spa, Hocker and his wife Ann stumbled on nudism. "We were the talk of Long Beach for a long time," recalls Ann (equally nude), her eyes gleaming with a certain mischievous pride. After four years Hocker quit his job as a cost analyst with the Ford...
Sparky's big job is to promote the Miss Nude Cosmos Pageant, a nude beauty contest held at Oakdale each summer. His first change has been to bill the pageant "The Woodstock of the Nudist Movement." He explains: "We've got to get the longhairs in here. Only way to save the place. And why not? They took their clothes off at Woodstock. Why can't they do it here...