IN PASSING
Great steaming puerilities, will the,mini mence never end? Newcastle upon Tyne Fire Brigade has Just bought a new, slim-line engine to squeeze up alleys and along pavements. Its official name is the minisquirt—From the “Miscellany” column in the "Guardian,” Manchester. AND
A woman consultant at a South London hospital tells us she has diagnosed what she calls a miniskirt syndrome. Chief symptom is a chronic numbness with recurrent severe aches in the portion of the upper leg covered by a normal skirt but not by the mini. In one classic ease, she says, the patient’s reaction was indignant disbelief. But six weeks later she arrived wearing a rather lets mini mini. The aches had dis-
appeared^—From the “As It Happens” column in “The Timet.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31345, 15 April 1967, Page 4
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