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...gave me an almost feminine hand with a pink palm as though it had just been boiled. To my surprise, he accompanied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Mandarin's Anti-Memoirs | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...eventually house 50,000 people. Before long, the then septuagenarian had cleared land and built the 1,100-room Hawaiian Village Hotel (which he sold to Conrad Hilton for $21.5 million), started a cement company, bought a radio and TV station, and established a Jeep-rental agency that provided pink Jeeps (Kaiser's favorite color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industrialists: The Man Who Always Hurried | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...learn how to mind their milds and bitters, the firm stands ready with a stable of 20 trained barmaids to "train local staffs in typical English fashion." According to Partner Shafran, they come in two styles-"the big-breasted, gin-breath barmaid in a tight black dress, and the pink-cheeked, lusty but innocent type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Prefab Pubs | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

Negro youths clambered onto the iron grilles shielding store fronts and, straining in unison, ripped them free. They sometimes spared stores whose windows bore the crayoned legend "Soul Brother," a sign of Negro ownership. In stores owned by "Whitey," clothing was stripped from mannequins, and the headless, pale pink forms soon dotted the length of Springfield Avenue, one of Newark's shopping streets, along with a fine, crunchy layer of window glass. Women pranced through supermarkets with shopping carts, picking and choosing with unwonted indifference to price tags. One young Negro mother was stopped by cops as she exited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Sparks & Tinder | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...bills into century notes. They even peddle U.S. currency in brown, blue and beige. In Yugoslavia, a batch of grey hundred-dollar bills printed up for a movie were soon fetching $120 worth of dinars on the black market. Another Eastern European buck passer got away with putting some pink "play money" into circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: How to Make Money | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

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