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...sure, echoes of Paris were everywhere. Culottes, shorts and bloomers were big; so, as in Paris, were belts, textured stockings and lots of bright African prints. Hemlines were lower by a smidgen-but still high enough to expose an ample expanse of thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Bosom Rediscovered | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...Thigh Flaps. After two months of healing came the crucial second stage. Where almost three inches of windpipe (trachea) was missing above the neck opening, Dr. Montgomery constructed a new windpipe from flaps of skin obtained from vertical cuts down the neck. To cover the gaps left by removal of these flaps, he took still other strips from Lopata's thighs. Into the windpipe opening went a valved silver tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: A Marine Speaks Again | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...floor to reduce the risk of casualties from machine-gun bullets. When Americans urged her by phone from Kontum to take refuge in the city, she snapped: "Don't be ridiculous! I can't leave my patients." Then a stray bullet hit a woman in the thigh, and Dr. Smith was on the phone again, this time barking at an American commander: "Stop firing on my patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors: Healing the Montagnards | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...jacket and driving a blue and white snowmobile, for a deer? A Minnesota hunter did just that last month and shot the boy dead. In Maine, Edwin Horr, 60, was sitting on a rock, smoking, when he was shot - in the right knee, left calf and left thigh - by a myopic marksman who thought that the smoke of Horr's cigarette was the rump of a white-tailed buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: The Blood Sport | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...blood, Dorothy's eyes were open, but surrounded with black stains. Her right car was completely covered with blood. Her dress was ripped down to her waist, exposing her mutilated breasts. Her skirt was also torn and a large red bruise was visible on the inside of her right thigh...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: A Colloquium on Violent Death Brings 30 Detectives to Harvard | 12/6/1966 | See Source »

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