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...were persuaded to stick it out." Even when switches are made, he says, "the one who is left feels rejected." He recalled a case last year in which one boy with a fetish for cleanliness hung a rope across his room to isolate a roommate, who left dirty underwear scattered about. The rejected boy turned morose, let his grades slip, dropped out of school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Computerized Companions | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...year. The horror is forgetting that your life?the only life you have?is destroyed, is in your willingness to forgive even some ugly swine of a warder, is in being obsessed with grabbing a big hunk of bread in the prison mess or getting a decent set of underwear when they take you to the bathhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE WRITER AS RUSSIA'S CONSCIENCE | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...food is very good, much better than the food that I paid for at the University of Chicago. The beds are clean, and you are given a change of linen once a week. You can change your underwear and socks daily if you're the fastidious sort. A lot of hardened cons are, strange to relate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: How The Resisters Fare | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...stars could get away with Mitchurn's approach to moviemaking, and few want to. "I've still got the same attitude I had when I started," he likes to boast. "I haven't changed anything but my underwear." Therein lies his personal color-and his professional drabness. Is there still a chance for him to unveil his talent? "That would require a lot more exposure of himself," says Actress Polly Bergen. "And he's not sure that he likes what's inside him, which is a shame." Not to Mitchum. Rich, languid, self-hating, self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Waiting for a Poisoned Peanut | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...things in the heat they do not usually do. A girl took a bubble bath in Mister Bubble Bath for two hours. Another girl bought a dress that had no back and hardly any front and no bottom to it. People do not wear shoes and do not wear underwear. Long hair, you admit, is a problem in the heat, but it has been long for so long, you do not remember how cool it was when it was short, and that is just as well...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: The Heat | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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