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Caught in a jet-set liftoff, skirts have been rising from a ladylike "just shadows the knee" to the mid-thigh of the London mini. Followers of the high-rise trend have found themselves caught in a profusion of embarrassment just in the simple act of sitting down. "Thighs?" sighed one London designer. "Every girl I know is dieting to get into short skirts." Where was the frantic escalation to be stopped? As the grands couturiers last week paraded next fall's fashion, they provided the answer: in Paris...
...leaping after lepidoptera to check out a theory that the color patterns of butterflies edible to birds are evolving toward the color patterns of nonedible butterflies, as a measure of survival. Last week Entomologist Dennis Hynes, 37, of California State Polytech, slipped on snowshoes to walk atop thigh-deep drifts on Washington's Mount Baker and bring back iceboxes filled with larvae specimens of a crop-killing insect called the crane...
Lithe and handsome in fringed white buckskin, his golden mane glinting in the sunlight, dashing George Armstrong Custer stood before a tattered guidon of the Seventh Cavalry, smiting bloodthirsty Sioux hip and thigh. Finally, standing tall, his dead troops strewn about him, Custer faced a climactic Indian charge singlehanded and became the last man to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn...
Over the last 16 years, Mickey Mantle has come a long way from Commerce, Okla. This season it looked as though he had all but stopped. The once grand .365 of 1957 has withered to .281, and Mantle, his aching legs taped from ankle to thigh, has seemed merely a $100,000 ghost of a great, while the once fearsome New York Yankees flounder in eighth place, 19½ games behind the leading Baltimore Orioles...
...Swedes were not disturbed one whit. They queued up to enter "the portal of life," clustered about the soft-drink bar inside one breast. Children toboggan down the inside of the right thigh, shrilling, "Oh, what a funny house!" Couples snuggle in the love seat in the left leg, blissfully unaware that the sculptors have hidden microphones that are broadcasting their sweet nothings to the laughing crowd in the breast bar. Youngsters scramble up the stairs through the tummy, pop out of the navel, where there is a conveniently placed table on a terrace...