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See the skirts fly. See the gallant gentlemen help the poor damsels in distress regain control of their runaway steeds. Come to the annual Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race, taking off from the Soldiers Field gate at 2 p.m. Sunday. The prize: no, not the fox's tail, but a Peugeot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bike Race | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

From Noise to Style. The twist did not seem like much of an invention at the time. The participant merely planted his feet opposite his partner, started churning his arms as if shadowboxing, while rotating his hips like a girl trying to wriggle out of a tight girdle. But it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Wild Side. Back in the 1870s, the destitute Dreiser family was the talk of Terre Haute. Father John Paul was a religious fanatic who rarely worked. Mother Sarah was a warm-blooded mystical pagan who rarely worried. There were ten Dreiser children, most of them on the wild side, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius of the Ordinary | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

As it turned out, the Astros beat the Yankees 2-1, in the presence of 47,876 considerably distracted fans, including President Johnson. It was the biggest crowd ever to turn out for a baseball game in Houston. In the $1.50 bleacher seats (each with its own arm rest and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Daymares in the Dome | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

Director Vadim has not reinterpreted La Ronde; he has simply thrown himself upon it like a pimpled schoolboy tussling for kisses in the cloakroom. Famed for his ability to guide young actresses from obscurity to nudity, Vadim usually displays them backside up amidst a pile of sheets. In Circle, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roger & Over | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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