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...best sites to observe this event is found in the walkways under Wigglesworth. Within minutes of the beginning of a downpour, puddles form and the fun begins. They call rain the great equalizer in sports and here it is not different as Topsiders, Wallabees, Adidas and Hush Puppies all skirt through the pools invariably landing in the big lake...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Raindrops Keep Falling... | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

Even in our own day, medical ideas change as often as skirt lengths. Until recently, U.S. doctors almost always insisted on re moving the breast when cancer occurred there. Now, under pres sure from women horrified by the prospect of such mutilation, they are finally beginning to restrain their scalpels and try al ternatives, notably radiation therapy, that have long been fa vored by European doctors. Similarly, many doctors are now having second thoughts about the value of hysterectomies, which are about as common as tonsillectomies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Freedom of Choice and Apricot Pits | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

They sidestep. They skirt. They make gestures of love. They are sheep in shepherds' clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1977 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...interior was spacious but its decor was neutral. Chiang Ch'ing was wearing a superbly tailored shirtwaist dress of heavy crepe de chine, with a full pleated skirt falling to midcalf, a style evocative of our early 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Once she signaled over her shoulder to her bodyguard, who promptly delivered a large oblong box of undecorated cardboard. Laughing like a girl, she lifted the cover and pulled out, as if by magic, one long, pleated black skirt after another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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