Word: wagnerism
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...sport Nazi swastikas (TIME, Jan. 21). Then it spread to surfers, who began exchanging their St. Christopher medals for Iron Cross pendants (now sold as his-and-her pairs, charm bracelets and even earrings). Soon landlocked emulators across the U.S. took up the fad. Explains Chicago's Walter Wagner, 17: "I'd like to be a surfer, but you can't do much on Lake Michigan. If you can't surf and you can't have a board, at least you can have something...
While solving the kidnaping, he flushes a few other rare loony birds from the scented foliage of Southern California. All are played with just the right sort of strutty assurance. Mindless beauty is embodied by Pamela Tiffin as the victim's turned-on daughter and by Robert Wagner as a glamour-boy private pilot, both up to their pearly ears in self-parody. Arthur Hill adds knowing touches as the lovesick family lawyer, who hopes to bridge the years between himself and Pamela with the help of isometric exercises. Strikingly cast are Julie Harris as a ginmill songbird hooked...
...John Vliet Lindsay, New York City's first Republican mayor in 20 years, the honeymoon ended even before he took office. With retiring Mayor Robert Wagner off on an Acapulco holiday, Lindsay, 44, was saddled with the responsibility for a costly, crippling transit strike that became all but inevitable hours before he was sworn...
Attacking this proposal as "fantastic" and illegal, Moses seemed unwittingly to be speaking for the entire establishment that Lindsay is challenging when he recalled his 40 years as "sultan, vizier, pasha and emir" of assorted public enterprises. The final frustration for Lindsay came at legislative committee hearings, when Bob Wagner questioned the desirability of a transit czar with the acerbic comment that the official "would need to be Superman and Batman rolled into...
...season is only now beginning to swing. So far, Acapulco vacationers have included Lynda Bird Johnson (relaxing), Anne Ford (honeymooning) and ex-Mayor Wagner (recuperating). Last week the chic league was further congested by Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, who arrived bringing the season's first rainstorm and leading a glossy swirl of journalists and society's beautiful people-Mary Cushing, Caterine Milinaire, Aurora Hitchcock-on a swinging junket to celebrate his new perfume, Vivara. All of this, on top of a regular tourist season that will probably see 1,560,000 visitors stream...