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...report the use of Saran Wrap as a male contraceptive, but such improvisation seems hardly necessary, since birth control devices of all kinds are sold freely, often at supermarkets. Parents have been known to buy diaphragms for their daughters (although in Cleveland recently, a woman was arrested for giving birth control information to her delinquent daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morals: The Second Sexual Revolution | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...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 »

Depending on which foreign film actress was in vogue, U.S. women over the past few years have tangled their hair until it swelled out to blimp proportions or plastered it down on their skulls as if it were Saran Wrap. Now hair is headed in the only remaining direction: up, up, up. Last week Saks Fifth Avenue Hair Stylist Adrian, the personally trained protége of Saks's famed Antoine, offered the U.S. the look that topped this summer's Paris collections-swirling, soaring swatches of hair that take off into the sky like the aftermath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: A Haughty Year | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Floating swimming-pool furniture, including an Aqua-Lounge ($29.95), constructed of aluminum tubing and saran webbing, an Aqua-Butler ($6.95 for set of two), Aqua-Table ($7.95), and a custom-made Aqua-Bar ($150 to $1,500 each). The Aqua-Butler is a 10-in. by 4-in. rectangle of plastic foam, which accommodates an ash tray and a drinking glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: New Products | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

Plastic Fences. Strips of woven Saran plastic to be interlaced between posts to make a translucent fence were put on sale by Weblite, Inc., Mineola, L.I. Colors are turquoise, green or white. Price for 50 ft. of 5-ft.-high fence, installed-yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goods & Services: New Ideas | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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