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"   Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we dig through our ridiculously cool archive of vintage Cosmos to separate what&amp;#039;s hilariously old from what still holds up. February 1976, you do not disappoint on the V-Day front.  THE SCENE: 1976 was the year The Ramones released their debut album, Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10 at the Olympics, and some random dude named Steve Jobs started a computer company named after a fruit. Ha! Like that will last! The cover featured model Beverly Johnson, who put mainstream beauty ideals in their place when she became the first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue two years prior. Of shooting her Cosmo cover for legendary editor Helen Gurley Brown, Beverly said, &amp;quot;This was a big deal for me because I was known as the girl next door, which by fashion&amp;#039;s definition didn&amp;#039;t include being sexual. Helen took a chance on me and with the idea that good girls wanted to be sexy, too\u2026and that was okay.&amp;quot; Fun fact: The mag includes 11 cigarette ads, nine ads for booze, and one full page feature story about milk (&amp;quot;Evaporated milk is a whole milk, sold in cans, from which half the water has been removed&amp;quot;) which I can safely say is the most boring article penned since the dawn of the written word. But no need to cry over evaporated milk\u2014here are seven things from vintage Cosmo that deserve to be revisited: 1. This fashion centerfold on how to wrap yourself up in a scarf for your lover&amp;#039;s V-Day pleasure:  2. This weirdly tantalizing Cover Girl ad filled with mouths:  3. This quote from Andy Warhol, as part of a confessional celeb feature called &amp;quot;Things I&amp;#039;ve Never Done&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;I have never slept with a boy. Or with a girl. And I&amp;#039;ve never used drugs of any kind or missed church on Sunday.&amp;quot;  4. This confusing-yet-awesome boob-centric illustration accompanying a think piece on women&amp;#039;s intuition:   5. A profile of &amp;quot;the new keyboard,&amp;quot; which obviously went on to become nonexistent, despite &amp;quot;tests [showing] that the average DSK typist moves her fingers only a mile per day as opposed to an average twelve to twenty miles for the typist using &amp;#039;qwerty&amp;#039;&amp;quot;:  6. This &amp;quot;Cosmo Tells All&amp;quot; tip of the month, which features a topless girl horseback riding through a meadow\u2014as you do\u2014and instructs readers to call the Chamber of Commerce of their &amp;quot;favorite Western state&amp;quot; and ask for listing to a dude ranch:  7. Helen&amp;#039;s editor&amp;#039;s letter, in which she tells readers about a recent trip to Australia for an international press tour with editor Sylvia Raner:  &amp;quot;At one television show, several ardent libbers burned some copies of Cosmo out in the parking lot. Sylvia and I were insulted, of course, but consoled ourselves that they had to buy the copies to burn them. &amp;quot;Lib women in America used to fuss at us, too, saying Cosmo placed too much emphasis on being beautiful and sexy, but I think people are finally realizing we mostly try to be beautiful for ourselves, not men, and you can love men to pieces without it sabotaging your total dedication to the goals of women&amp;#039;s lib.&amp;quot;  Not every woman believed in Helen&amp;#039;s approach to feminism, but these wacky, wonderful pages are those of an editor without any doubts.  See Flashback Friday with Mariah Carey here.  Elisa is Cosmo&amp;#039;s social media editor. Follow her on Twitter @elisabenson. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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