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...swinger's suit for Continental beaches this summer is the new "shiner," which is slicker and shorter than ever and made of glossy "power stretch" and other synthetic fabrics that need no supports, cling to every curve and dimple like a coat of suntan...
...apartheid laws is often ridiculous. The Japanese, who trade heavily with South Africa, are officially classified as "whites"; East Indians, who are descended from Caucasian stock, are '"Asians." A Greek immigrant from Cyprus was nearly refused entrance to South Africa recently because he had acquired a deep suntan on the ship. Since white athletes are forbidden to compete against nonwhites, South Africa has had to cancel its longstanding rugby rivalry with New Zealand-which allows Maoris to play on its team...
...Batman. Major trouble in color consistency is that there is no uniform standard used by all production studios on all cameras, so that there are as many transmission-tone variations as there are color girls. Often, as Huntley and Brinkley report, the audience just gets Chet tinted correctly (healthy suntan, hazel-brown eyes) when the producer cuts to David, who comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial or shift...
...their heads. For newsmen, Lyndon pointed out two brown picnic tables in the yard at which he and his advisers had worked on the budget. "That's where you lost billions of dollars this week," he chuckled. "That's where I got the budget down, and a suntan-right there." Whether, as Lyndon has been hoping, the final budget comes out under $100 billion remains to be seen...
...Christmas and in August. The atmosphere will be permissive; students are called "colleagues," and rules are called "expectations." But with most courses in give and take seminars or tutorial sessions, the school hopes to avoid the academic laxness that a free rein might encourage. "It could be Suntan U., but it won't be," says Florida-born George Baughman, 49, who resigned three years ago as vice president for business affairs at New York University to head New College...