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Britain's National Health Service, which costs the British taxpayer $650 million a year, supplies free medicine, also free false teeth, wigs, spectacles, glass eyes, wooden legs and hearing aids. Last week it announced that it would draw the line at bath salts, vanishing cream, shaving soap, toothpaste, hair tonic and anti-mosquito lotions. However, a spokesman admitted, there are borderline cases: "A man with an itch, it might be argued, needs medicated soap...
After the Bath. First he used a doctor and four nurses as human guinea pigs. They were trained while taking chlorophyll to use an osmoscope (smell measurer) on each other 24 hours after they had taken baths. Sure enough, they found that underarm odor was cut in half, or even abolished, for as long as 18 hours after a dose of chlorophyll. The results were confirmed in experiments with a group of twelve college girls...
...years later he had an inspiration in his bath one night and by morning had evolved a theory of human consciousness that put him, he felt, many years ahead of the psychologists. A year after that he spent a week staring into the open fire in his Paris apartment, occasionally knocking off to munch a crust, take a bath, or catnap on the floor for an hour or so. At the end of it-through "sheer imagination," since he was no mathematician-he had evolved a "mystical realization" of the theory of relativity, which put him in a class with...
...Bath, the hero is a prosperous barrister who winds up a night of revelry in a country inn a hundred miles from Dublin, and the next morning, half-dressed, badly in need of a pickup, lectures the peasantry in the bar on gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little...
Super-Selling. The houses in Levittown, which sell for a uniform price of $7,990, cannot be mistaken for castles. Each has a sharp-angled roof and a picture window, radiant heating in the floor, 12-by-16 ft. living room, bath, kitchen, two bedrooms on the first floor, and an "expansion attic" which can be converted into two more bedrooms and bath. The kitchen has a refrigerator, stove and Bendix washer; the living room a fireplace and a built-in Admiral television...