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...offense with a consenting teen-age girl. Another notable success involved a campaign against entrapment tactics practiced by?no, not the CIA but, of all agencies, the Post Office. Seems that postal inspectors were in the habit of placing an ad in a newspaper to the effect that one "swinger" would like to meet another. When letters were exchanged, the unsuspecting hedonist might include a nude photograph or two?whereupon the police arrived and arrested him.* Bowing to a Playboy-organized protest movement, as well as complaints from Congress, the Post Office promised to quit the practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Think Clean | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...Sport on trumpet: Aggressive, outgoing, he is the orchestra's resident swinger, a locker-room pundit, a connoisseur of poker, baseball and off-color jokes. To meet the physical demands of his instrument, he lifts weights. > The Tout on trombone: He lifts martinis. A wheeler-dealer, he is forever organizing parties and picnics, likes to sit in on jam sessions at the local jazz club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...Street station wearing shiny black boots and a quasi-miniskirt cut three inches above the knee. Of course she still has a long way to escalate before raising any eyebrows in the Chelsea group, but all the same the Fleet Street headlines blared: "AT LAST, A REAL ROYAL FASHION SWINGER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...with it nowadays, the swinger and would-be swinger are expected to take a blase if not widely permissive view of LSD, marihuana, and virtually anything else that offers a flight into funsville. Since it helps to have a little intellectual support, the more anxiously hip members of the Now Generation will find some comfort in this one-sided propaganda volume in praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puff Job | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...touchdown than make love to the prettiest girl in the United States." Hampered this season by a pinched nerve in his neck, Paul scored only five touchdowns. But at least he's got one of the prettier girls in the U.S. And in a few weeks, Paul, the swinger emeritus of the National Football League, will marry Dallas Model Pat Roeder, 29, and settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 13, 1967 | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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