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...bootleg bellywash. Then he runs back to the skin parlor for the second show ("This old slag takes care of her health-if she's not in bed by eleven, she goes home"). Then he runs down the street to a jobber he knows and sells him a sack of smuggled watches. Then he runs back to the dirty old men ("The next young lady you will see started out as a fan dancer-but now she has feathered her nest"). Then he runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tickling with a Needle | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...chemise family is a closely knit group. Fashion-conscious females who climbed out of the sack only a short while ago now find themselves climbing right back into the sack's first cousin, the shift. Already a slender trend as winter waned, the shift really switched into high with the summer solstice. On beaches from Maine to Malibu, lissome Loreleis clad in the latest two-piece bathing suits arranged themselves across the sand, apparently to ponder such girth-shaking questions as: How is a girl going to look her best when she isn't looking her barest? Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Shift Ahoy! | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Korth, 53, is slightly stooped, combs his white hair severely back, wears thick, black-rimmed glasses. When he gets all gussied up in a jet flight suit, he looks like a cartoonist's rendition of a Sad Sack Spaceman. But on the basis of his performance so far, Korth is far from being ridiculous. He is neither the admirals' cabin boy nor one of Mc-Namara's whiz kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Man in the Middle | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Tops. Most in of all is the loose-fitting, blouson top. To the male eye, it looks like a sad sack, but to the female wearer it has advantages. Depending on the wearer's particular problem, she may either remain beach-bound, confident that her figure will go undetected under such bulk, or plunge headlong into the sea, secure in the knowledge that a wet blouson clings like Saran Wrap; one fast ocean dip and what was hidden is made spectacularly manifest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Suiting Up | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...market (20% of all cans made in the U.S.) with tab tops and all-aluminum cans; it is also putting out orange juice containers with tab tops. Pushing both paper and plastic, Container Corp. is marketing a handy "bag-in-a-box," a six-quart or ten-quart polyethylene sack of milk inside a cardboard box, which sits in home refrigerators and dispenses milk through a plastic spout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The Packaging War | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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