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...raining out, and the people who are climbing back in are marked by their wetness. Offered a towel by one of the new people, a girl pointedly says no thank you, I haven't been out. Rationally, we 27 are glad that there are now 100 people in the office, but emotionally we resent them. As people dry out, the old and new become less easily differentiable, and I mourn the loss of my identity. I am trying for a field promotion in the movement so that I will not fade into the masses who jumped and might jump again...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

Left to Right. Is Video Boy a freak in the making? The question frankly baffles many parents. Though they may admit that TV can expose new channels of experience, there is still the lingering fear that some day Video Boy is going to tie a towel around his neck and try to fly off the garage roof like Bat Fink; or, if somebody crosses him in the playground, he may poke his fingers in his eyes in the style of the Three Stooges. But mostly, with misty recollections of taffy pulls and swimming holes, parents are bothered by a vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: Video Boy | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...demonstration and use of various techniques of massage. People should bring one large bath towel, vegetable oil, baby oil, and rubbing alcohol (with glycerin) and some kind of plastic bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Semester That Might Have Been... | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...home in a smoke-filled room as any other politician, but this time the predawn billows in his $42-a-day Sheraton-Dallas Hotel suite were accompanied by a nasty little fire. All but blinded by the smoke, Tower groped his way to the bathroom, wrapped a wet towel around his face and yelled for help. The hotel's soundproofing tabled that motion, so the 5-ft. 5½-in. parliamentarian resourcefully slammed the table right through the window and down into the street 26 floors below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1967 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...another nymphet role in How I Learned to Love Women, in which, says Linda, "she absolutely wiped the screen with her leading man." And, she adds proudly, "her name was put above the title," which in the advertisements was accompanied by a shot of Romina sprawled nude on a towel decorated with water melons. The caption: HAVE A SLICE. Both films were banned for minors by the Italian censors, and some of Romina's racier scenes in Women, for which Mother had to give her ''private kissing lessons," were scissored at the insistence of the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Have Nymphet, Will Travel | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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