Lifestyle

There are no statistics available on the number of accidents caused by the girls from American Apparel as the young ladies basked on their billboards on Sunset Boulevard, openly demonstrating the benefits of skin-tight leggings or transparent swimsuits, watching the commuters below them. The sight of bare skin is nothing unusual in Los Angeles, but in combination with amateur aesthetics, suburban teenage innocence and the breathy promise of full lips, the ads are strangely provocative. In the UK, some of the more sexually charged images were banned.

“Every day, my father brought home a different car at lunchtime,” Carlo Felice Bianchi ‘Cici’ Anderloni once recounted. “I was so impressed by their beauty that I wanted to do what he did: build cars.” His wish was to be fulfilled, although sooner and in circumstances very different from those he had anticipated.

While many of us probably doodled a Ferrari ‘Daytona’-type supercar in our rough books during double maths, these guys went on from that stage in their lives to brilliant careers in styling and design for the worldwide car industry.

I expect they were pretty nifty with a slide rule, too.

With his trademark right-handed Stratocaster (re-strung for left-handed playing), Afro hair and an eclectic selection of clothes from Kings Road boutiques and second-hand markets, Hendrix was the personification of 1960s psychedelia.
He died in London on 18 September 1970, aged 27.

This video shows German alpine ski racer Willy Bogner Jr. at the peak of his prodigious powers.

Much has been written about the SMTC – most of it inaccurate. This is due, in part, to the careful way the Club protects its members from outside intrusion. It has created the ‘myth’ - but it underplays the hard work of the organising committee and its many Arbeiters to make every Cresta season an unforgettable happening. The construction of the Run (and the installation of timing equipment) involves many day-and-night shifts before it can be officially declared open.