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...says, and Britons no longer need titillation from the tabloids. To prove the point, one Mirror executive held up a picture of a demurely necklined deb and declared: "I defy you to find her cleavage." Nobody bothered to search, for the Mirror can still be counted on to reflect racier stuff. Only last week it ran a picture of Kim Novak that posed no plunging-neckline problem because there was no neckline. In fact, there were no clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Sex, Sensation & Significance | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...nervous passengers to hang on to, the new Thunderbird can be converted into a pseudo two-seater by slipping a fiber-glass tonneau cover over the back seat. The nation's bestselling compact, the Falcon, adds a dummy air scoop on the hood that gives the car a racier silhouette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Summer | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

Pile & Picture Windows. Given a free hand by the Shields brothers. Coll himself took a pencil to Chris-Craft's blueprints. A mechanical engineer with a flair for design, he slimmed the bulging bow line, streamlined the superstructure to give the boats a racier silhouette. To please lady sailors, he installed molded fiber-glass vanities and washbowls in the heads, put pile carpets in the cabins, and picture windows in the galleys. As a result of the new look, Chris-Craft is once again, according to Coll, "at least two years in front of its competitors-and I intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Course for Chris-Craft | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

Every Inch a Sailor (Oscar Brand; Elektra, mono and stereo). Guitarist Brand offers a largely unprintable tour through the racier passages of Navy mythology in a series of songs sung by the fleet in World War II-Guantanamo Bay, Subdivision Nine, Zamboanga. The cast of female characters includes such wonders as Miss VD of Guam: "Admiral Nimitz gave the order/ Better keep your noses clean/ But Miss VD was waiting/ Like a bloody sex machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Rambler, give it canted tailfins, a flat roofline, pushbutton transmission and a slight horsepower boost to 215 h.p. in the V-8 model. In the low-medium price bracket. American will produce a third, 117-in. -wheelbase Rambler Ambassador to replace its defunct Nash and Hudson, will give it racier lines than last year's standard Rambler, and a bigger, 270-h.p. V-8 engine. List prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Little Two | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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