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...transient fashion, the cynic would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with her hair dyed pink or green and a lightning bolt tattooed above her left breast, is now being seen wearing a simple little black dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: Junior Gwen Gorman was serenaded in the middle of the meet by two flutists playing Christmas carols--a present from her Kirkland House Secret Santa... The Harvard Women's Swim Team Fan Club made its first appearance of the season and unfurled a large pink banner that read, "The Harvard Women's Swim Team Performs Better On Their Backs"... Master and Mrs. Vogt of Kirkland House came to the meet to cheer on the plethora of team members who reside in K. House...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Aquawomen Submerge Manhattanville; Frick, McCloskey, Zimic Notch Wins | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Near Golden, Colo., at the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats plant, a technician pushes a red button marked REQUEST TRANSFER. Behind a 10-in.-thick concrete wall, a pair of claws reaches out to grasp a stainless steel container filled with pink powder, then lifts it into a furnace where it is baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...lady brought me a box full of bloomers," Vellucci added. "And when I asked her what it was for, she explained to me the Italian ladies would be needing them--all colors, too, pink, blue, yellow," he said...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Clothes Backlog Hinders Delivery to Quake Victims | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

...FALL issue of the Playboy Guide to Electronic Entertainment, some pop stars were asked what albums they had been listening to lately. While most listed mainstream stuff like Pink Floyd and the Police, David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, mentioned "Vietnam Music Instrumental Popular Songs" by Tran Quang Hai and Bach Yin, "Ethiopian Polyphony and Vocal Techniques" and "The Popular Music of North Africa" (on Vogue Records in case the Coop is out of it and you have to order...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Beating Heads | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

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