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his fabulous picture couldn’t be any more ‘Swinging Sixties’ if it tried, and that’s before the identity of its protagonists and where they were headed, is considered. From , June 2, 1966, the caption reads: “Chilly, but nice all the same! American film star Sabrina Scharf is a keen motorcycle enthusiast – she has two bikes at home – and what more natural than that she should don her ostrich feather dress and ride to the premiere of

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