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...tore holes that left a knitted overblouse looking like supersized Swiss cheese, showed a G-string bikini beneath to any mouse man enough to peep. Glans left only two prim pockets on an otherwise totally transparent shirt. Veneziani attached five-inch-wide suspenders to the waist of a party skirt and called it an evening gown; Princess Irene Galitzine cut a V that kept going, fore and aft, out of a sleek leopard-printed swimsuit. Baldini decorated a perfectly modest little bathing suit with two prominent painted breasts. And Frederico Forquet un-topped them all with a full-length strapless...
...those who would savor the texture of the land and recover their sense of place, there are the shunpike and the minor road, a network of Indian trails and reconstructed canal routes; tortuous drives that skirt oceans below and wind around mountains, cross plains and valleys, run after rivers through national parks and state museums, ghost towns, rain forests and whaling ports. -See MODERN LIVING, Sights on the Shunpike...
...sources of radical and rebellious Roman Catholic thinking used to be the industrial missions in urban France or the theological faculties of German universities. Lately, the fount of ideas that may skirt heresy - or may become the accepted reshaping of church thinking - is the staid and sober Netherlands...
HELLO, DOLLY! Part of this musical's nostalgic appeal lies in its evocative Oliver Smith backdrops of little old New York, part lies in its hissable boss-villain (David Burns), whom Dolly finds kissable. Most of it lies in the skirt-swishing charm of Carol Channing as Dolly...
Brewster ended up taking the state's three westernmost counties, where the Negro population is small and civil rights are no problem. He also scored heavily in the well-to-do bedroom suburbs that skirt Washington. But his winning margin came from Baltimore's Jewish and Negro areas. The city's Fifth District, home of 80% of Baltimore's 90,000 Jews, gave Brewster 39,000 votes, Wallace 9,000. The lopsided results were much the same in black Baltimore. In 17 Negro precincts, Wallace got not a single ballot. Eighty-seven Negro boxes gave...