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For two years a slim, changing line of girls-about 800 in all-moved ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Women of the Rebellion | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

When I was with her, I felt that I, too, could fly. With her, I abandoned myself to the luxury of lechery...to her bare clean lips, her cool tweed sweaters, her short warm tweed skirts, her tights which covered her painfully long thin legs without wrinkling.

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

Ever since Dictator Mustafa Kemal Ataturk overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: First Mate, Second Mate | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Captain Frederick Houston '23, of the Vermont State Police commented, "Those girls gave us the chase of our lives. It was really heart-rending to have to arrest all those beautiful girls with their red and white skirts, and their megaphones and pom-poms. Those girls wanted very much to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kuties Knabbed | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Then the dancers, in variously colored skirts and leotards, performed three numbers with the chorus. In general, the group was best in such pieces as Delaney's "The River" and the folksong "Lily Munro" where freedom of movement and gesture left little room for awkward or stagy poses.

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Song and Dance | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

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