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Halston's midis tell more than most minis did. His sarong-wrap skirts, held together with two buttons, swing apart with the slightest movement, and his figure8 skirt-one section in front, one in the back, with a good deal in between left out-would be certain to leave the Ice Capades cold...
...Shwe Dagon Pagoda aglow. For hours, as crows caw mournfully above the dirty streets, they stand in line at "people's stores," ration cards in hand, waiting for a chance to buy rice, bread, soap or a bit of cloth to make a longyi, the Burmese sarong. But when the doors open, the shelves, as often as not, are bare...
...publicity raced pellmell ahead of her films. "20th Century-Fox billed me as a sex symbol in Fantastic Voyage," she recalls, but "I was nothing but a rotten little nurse." In One Million Years B.C. she was a cave lady lurking about in a pneumatically uplifted fur sarong. She did something for the costume, and the studio proved it by using a publicity still (James Bond Mistress stance) on 2,000 Christmas cards. In a twinkling, everybody knew about Raquel...
White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin's Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use for sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...
Sunday, December 31 DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Peace Corps" takes a look at the preparations for Far Eastern service at the Peace Corps training center in Hawaii: les sons in everything from bathing in a sarong to paddling a Malaysian canoe...