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...indignant protest. In a full-page advertisement in West Germany's weekly magazine Der Spiegel, a family of three was shown in impeccable dress-but all with pigs' faces. Beneath them were the words: "This year, in the average German family, the child will wear his underwear four days, the wife five days and the husband seven days." The ad was placed by the obviously phony "Action Committee for Fresh Underwear," presumably an invention of German soft-goods manufacturers...
This obsessive cleanliness, however, applies chiefly to things the neighbors may see-and not to more personal areas. According to statistics gathered by two highly reliable market-research institutes, the average German changes his shirt every other day, his socks and underwear every three to four days, and his bed linen every four weeks. More than half of West Germany's citizens brush their teeth only rarely, and the same proportion bathe only once a week; for roughly 10% of the population, the figure is once every four weeks...
...across the border, too. East Germany's Volksarmee, honoring Lenin's 100th birthday, recently launched "Operation Clean Underpants" with an ambitious goal: to get 80% of the troopers to change their shorts once a week. The results have been scanty. Many soldiers simply wrote home for more underwear and regularly sent the new arrivals, unworn, to the Army laundry. Meanwhile they continued to wear, for periods of up to several weeks, the older, more lived-in garments to which they had become so attached...
Fortunately, only the astronauts felt frozen. On their last night in space, they donned two pairs of thermal underwear apiece to ward off the chill; Lovell even put on his bulky moonwalking shoes to keep his toes warm. Because they had slept only fitfully, Deke Slayton, NASA's director of flight-crew operations, suggested that each crew member take two Dexedrine pills to keep him alert for busy and fateful moments ahead. Said Lovell: "It's going to be an interesting...
Watching as a girl is stripped by a male partner (he wearing gloves). Mrs. Shecter observes: "Some of the girls have wonderful undergarments, wonderful bras." Adds Mrs. Shriver: "When I first started seeing these films, they looked like they were made by underwear salesmen...