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...suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of trousers splitting beneath his tails. With a laugh, he flew through the rest of his act, but next day decided to take steps. He trotted over to Saks Fifth Avenue, asked the rather elegant salesman for one pair of men's nylon tricot boxer shorts, pure black. The clerk blanched, then to his own amazement discovered that the store did indeed have one pair of black nylon shorts. "Do you mind, sir, if I ask, why black?" he said. Stiffening, Ray mugged: "I, sir, am in mourning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...variable. In Colosseum, he indulges in a prudish flight of fancy; as the poet broods on the ancient games, he also rather absurdly sees capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged and he evokes a worldwide convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yes & No of a Public Muse | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...provided Aldrin with a number of new body restraints. Borrowing from window-washer technology, they fitted him with two harnesses that could be hooked to rings strategically placed around the spacecraft. In addition, he carried two flatiron-shaped handholds that had their bottoms covered with Velcro, an adhesive-like nylon material. When Aldrin slapped his handholds against patches of Velcro plastered on the skin of both Gemini and Agena, they stuck until he pulled them free, providing additional anchors in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: And Now Apollo | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...plan was to bind the women, tie plastic bags over their heads, and watch them while they suffocated. After mulling it over for weeks, he set out from his home early one morning last week with a brown paper bag containing 200 ft. of nylon cord, a package of big plastic sandwich bags, two hunting knives and, for good measure, a .22-cal., single-action six-shooter that his parents had given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Slaughter in the College of Beauty | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching a bit of Russian or Arabic to his fellow inmates, discussing world affairs, or philosophizing on the art of espionage. On that rainy night, the soirée was canceled: sawed bars and a nylon ladder attested to the fact that Blake was associating more freely outside the walls of Wormwood Scrubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Question of Identity | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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