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Word: topless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stereotypes about Los Angeles are fast losing whatever basis they may have had. No longer does the city suffer from chronic San Francisco envy, even though it has taken up the San Francisco-originated topless-waitress fad. With more grandeur if less concentrated charm, Los Angeles is refreshingly free of San Francisco's narcissistic smugness. Los Angeles has no time to be smug. It is too busy: busy building its $19 million privately financed Music Center, a downtown complex consisting of the 3,250-seat Pavilion and two smaller, almost completed theaters; busy putting up galleries like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...last week told South Africans of the troubles elsewhere. RACES IN U.S. ON COLLISION COURSE, announced the Natal Mercury, while the Johannesburg Star gave prominence tO THE TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties were the talk of Cape Town. In Johannesburg, where last month's antique-car rally had drawn 69 entrants-from a 1907 Diatto-Clement to a 1938 Bugatti-the city was debating whether the miniskirt should be banned, and the ballet season began with performances by South African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...theme that all whites must unite behind him or be dispossessed by the Bantu usually gets a standing ovation and cries of "Hear, hear!" In Parliament, the once powerful United Party has been reduced to 39 seats. As an opposition party, Verwoerd once described it as "nothingness-both topless and bottomless." He is not far off. Its leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, offers vague motions against the methods of apartheid, but is a firm believer in racial segregation. Police have all but destroyed Novelist Paton's once active Liberal Party by arresting or confining its leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...majesty seems to have found the dividing line between permissible and impermissible exposure of female breasts. The topless-bathing-suit caper may be finally resolved-at least in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Steady as She Goes | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...operative phrase seems to be "suggestive movements." In short, by harking back to what is actually a rather old measure of lewdness, the court ruled that topless female dancers are legal, at least if they don't wiggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Steady as She Goes | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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