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...sweep $1,000 worth of clothes off the rack, and walk out (Sy democratically keeps racks for people who make less than $100,000 a year). Sy finally convinced Presley that he ought to stand still for fittings. Elvis stood-until Sy told the world that Elvis wore no underwear. Elvis sulked for a while, but he came back, wearing underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: As Long as You're Up Get Me a Grant | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...only was Christine a marijuana smoker who engaged in nightly orgies, said the paper, but it added the oddly prim observation that she only bathed every other day and never washed her underwear; when it got too dirty, she sent her butler out to buy some more. Christine immediately filed suit against The People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Moral Post-Mortem | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...case of many "middleaged or elderly" customers at the Mews, Vickie testified, she stripped down to her underwear and high-heeled shoes and lashed them with a cane or a horsewhip. The market price for that, she said matter-of-factly, "was ?1 [$2.80] a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Venezuela, a dozen members of a Castroite outfit called the Armed Forces of National Liberation raided U.S. Army mission headquarters in Caracas, stripped six staff members down to their underwear, painted slogans all over the walls and set the place on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: We Are the Victors | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Advance. Arrests are almost always violent and without warrants; arresting officers rarely show proof that they are agents of the law, but burst into their quarry's home at night, brush off his explanations, wreck his belongings, pocket his valuables and hustle him off to jail in his underwear. Verdicts, said one court stenographer who took part in many of the trials, are "by remote control," the judge's opinion often written in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Inside Castro's Prisons | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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