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High living by confederates also tipped police to the family-operated lipstick factory of Nikolai Kotlyar, who converted the basement of a house in the Moscow district of Ostankino into a miniature plant. Helped by wife, daughter and nephew, Kotlyar installed lipstick molds, mixed batter identical to the popular Ausma brand manufactured in Riga. Soon he persuaded Ausma officials-for a price-that competition was wasteful, and began importing the authentic recipes and lipstick tubes direct from the maker. When Kotlyar was nabbed, he had invested his lipstick loot in precious gems, gold and state bonds worth more than...
...differs in formula depending on whether it is being used to lubricate a drill bit, float rock chips out of the way of the bit, or seal a shaft against blast. To plug a well, "weighted mud" of powdered clay and barium sulfates mixed to the consistency of cake batter is used...
...consistency, registering at different times belligerence, shy embarrassment, prosperous self-satisfaction, artiness, guilt, and a well-practiced sinister leer. Last week it was artiness; he would like nothing better than to be put out of business, he said-in fact Olympia's sole aim has been to batter down the bastions of censorship and make the world safe for experimental literature. Supporting this seven-eighths hypocrisy, Girodias points loftily to a one-eighth truth: both Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man are works of high merit, and both were published first...
Fifteen times during yesterday's contest Elliot Aronson asked students watching the televised game to estimate the chances that the batter would hit safely, strike out, hit a home run, etc. The purpose: to determine the influence of situational factors on the viewer's answer...
...this year's heavy barrage from the batter's box, those who hold the rabbit ball responsible point in triumph to the evidence. With more than a month to go, the major-league sluggers have poled 2,094 balls into home-run territory-a figure that, extended to season's end, will set a record. For the first time, Babe Ruth's durable record of 60 home runs, set in 1927, is threatened by two men: Yankee Sluggers Mickey Mantle (45 home runs to date) and Roger Maris, who brought his total to 48 last week...