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From a distance, the current Greek government looks like a comic farce. The ruling colonels are a parody of the modern military regime: right-wing officers bow out to reactionaries; one purge succeeds another until there remains only a core of deeply paranoic rulers with a dramatic flair for secret...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: The Hellenic-American | 10/25/1967 | See Source »

Women's fashions have never been leggier. And so, with skirts still riding well above their knees and winter's icy blasts already on their minds, women are searching for new ways to beat the now familiar problem of polar kneecap. The surest bet seems to be boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up with Legs | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

Cry "Brava!" On the right pair of legs-ones that are young and slender -the boots can look devastatingly sexy. New York Fashion Plate Betsy Theodoracopulos, who wears her skirts four inches above the knee, says that she likes the high-rise boots because "they give my legs a sleek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up with Legs | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

Purists who insist that kilts are worn by men-and what the other sex wears is pleated skirts-may be upset to learn that the world's biggest manufacturer of kilts sells them strictly to females.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scotland: Cohen the Kiltmaker | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

As for the future of kiltmaking, nothing would please Bonchy more than to swing his company's skirts into places where kilts are never worn. Says he: "I'd love to see every Chinaman wearing a kilt." But until that unlikely event occurs, D. & H. Cohen will produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scotland: Cohen the Kiltmaker | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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