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Intelligence collected by the motorcycle scouts has led to several U.S. operations: recently they discovered a cache containing 27 rockets. Since the Communists have yet to shoot at them (though startled government soldiers did once by mistake), the cyclists' biggest complaint to date is entirely unmilitary. The job, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: And Now a Vroom | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Darting about on her chrome-festooned motorcycle in her self-designed uniform-white crash helmet and boots, tight black pants and leather jacket-she might be taken for a Hell's Angel auxiliary. Up close, Esther Winders gives no such false impression. The badge on her breast, the pearl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Heaven's Angel | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Something Basic. The business was founded by Levi Strauss, a Bavarian peddler who followed the gold rush to California in 1850. He saw a demand for trousers strong enough to withstand the rigors of mining. Using bolts of tent canvas, he devised what quickly came to be known around San...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Levi's Gold Rush | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Anthropologist Margaret Mead, perhaps because she is a woman, thinks trousers are just fine-although she rarely wears them. "Women are looking for greater freedom-freedom from corsets, girdles, tight belts, tight shoes-just as men have been trying to get out of tight collars," she says. Norman Norell, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Problems in Pants | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

Still, nothing, obviously, is going to stop females from wearing trousers-at least until the fashion winds shift. In fact, Designer Geoffrey Beene predicts that "by the year 2000, women will be wearing only pants." There is one thing that men can do to retaliate: stop wearing pants themselves. Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Problems in Pants | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

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