Word: swimsuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion. I was swimming on the Peking city team and we had an exhibition when the British swimmers were racing the Chinese national team. Chou came down from the stands to greet the team after the meet, and appeared puzzled at finding a Westerner wearing a Peking swimsuit, instead of a British one. He looked back and forth between me and the Britishers for a second; finally he shrugged and, smiling, held out his hand...
...meter race. The resulting suspension was lifted in time to let her compete in the 1964 Olympics, where she did her bit to annoy officials even further by disobeying orders not to march in the opening-day parade. She also refused to wear her regulation Olympic swimsuit because it was "too tight across my bust...
Died. Fred Cole, 63, California swimsuit designer who in the 1920s broke away from the drab, all-covering "woollies" of the day with low-backed, rainbow-colored bathing suits, went on to pioneer, with curve-clinging Lastex fabric, the bare midriff and the two-piece suit, but never countenanced the bikini; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...twist involving free-style arm motions. Most teen-agers still do the swim and almost everything else to the music of the Beatles, but the three young Go-Go's make a good pitch for swimming to their slow-rolling nautical numbers like Peek-A-Boo Swimsuit and They Call Him Chicken...
...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 dress that was minus more than straps, leaving the bosom...