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...announcement said Davis was wearing a dark jacket and skirt and a shorthaired wig. She was unarmed and offered no resistance...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Angela Davis Arrested in N. Y.; Was On Ten Most Wanted List | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

...Whitner was the first to take the field, dressed in old tennis shoes, a wig and glasses. Her story was that her husband had abandoned her and her five children. The social worker asked only that she produce birth certificates for her children. She was unable to do so and still the authorities granted her food stamps worth $126 a month. "The social worker seemed so sorry for me, I had to fight off being put on total welfare," Mrs. Whitner recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teaching How to Cheat | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...just isn't right. Up on the stage of Los Angeles' the Now (formerly Cocoanut Grove), a nightclub thick with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into a song: Don't Rain on My Parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Baby, Baby, Where Did Diana Go? | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...another occasion Gov. James Michael Curley appeared in silk stockings, knee britches, a powdered wig, and a three-cornered hat with flowing plume...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Sheriff Cops Out on Commencement | 6/10/1970 | See Source »

Parucca di Roma makes stretch toupees with synthetic hair that pull on like bathing caps and sell for $69 in department stores and barbershops. For only $5 more, at Gimbels in Manhattan, a barber will style the wig to the wearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rugs and Plugs | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

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