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...greatest beauty aid of all-soap -was an invention of the barbarian Gauls, who made it from goat's tallow and beech ashes. Though the Greeks and Romans praised cleanliness, neither used soap. As late as 1853, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone condemned soap as "most injurious both to the comfort and health of the people." Fortunately, some prejudices come out in the wash...
...KEYES BEECH Chicago Daily News Saigon...
...both tough and important. "A good police reporter could cover a military action," says NBC's Ron Nessen, "but the big job here is to try to give shape and meaning to what's going on." The Chicago Daily News's knowledgeable veteran Keyes Beech is even more direct. "Any idiot can cover a war," says...
Frank E. Hedrick, executive vice president, Beech Aircraft Corp...
...attracted to Nazism as an answer to their personal bitterness and the more self-controlled, often scientifically skilled persons who joined the Communists for ideological reasons. The Communist "network of perceptions and association and interpretations," she writes, "made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple, unimproved beech mast of the world." She also makes the cogent point that the well-publicized flights from England of Spies Bruno Pontecorvo, Burgess and McLean were deliberately contrived by Moscow to destroy U.S. confidence in England and sow disunity among the allies...