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Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 11, 1974 | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Higher Powers. Tom, who lives five miles away, values privacy more; he grows marijuana plants. At 27, Tom is a long-haired business dropout who made a bundle running charter flights, selling dune buggies and speculating in the stock market. Now he meditates in his tiny split-level, made of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Karma Yes, Toilets No | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

So Kissinger and his children were contentedly paddling around in the pool, behind the expensive bulletproof wind screen, when Nixon himself appeared in his trunks and strolled out into the afternoon sunshine. He got into the pool and then said to Kissinger, "Why don't you and I go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Super Secretary to Shake Up State | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

Yntema, for whom the regular season and the Eastern title meet were merely warmups for the untimate and true challenge, who set records nearly every time he pulled on his sleek and brief pinstirped trunks and slid into the pool, who maintained a composure and dedication befitting someone far in...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

There is also the cost of special equipment, such as vehicles fitted out with secret compartments ("Only crude amateurs use the trunks"), fake uniforms and, for one highly imaginative venture, an electric minisubmarine of the type used occasionally by cigarette smugglers on the border lakes between Switzerland and Italy. Inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST,FRANCE: Freedom for Sale | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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