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...Hakozaki is carrying the fight to new fronts as well. He has persuaded several Tokyo department stores to stock specially designed scissors, golf clubs and tools for lefthanders. Now at work on a second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign of progress is a record that has become one of Japan's top ten hits...
...month earlier the Assembly had formally recognized the rebel government of Guinea-Bissau by 93 to 7 (with 30 abstentions). Both actions were purely academic, since the Portuguese are still firmly in control in all three territories. But they called attention, as they were intended to do, to the brush-fire wars that are simmering in the African domains of Europe's last-and most stubborn-colonial power...
Died. Alfred Carl Fuller, 88, the Horatio Alger of door-to-door selling who parlayed a $375 operation into the multi-million-dollar Fuller Brush Co.; of a form of blood cancer; in Hartford, Conn. Fuller got his foot in the door by making brushes at night and soft-selling them by day to housewives in Boston. He eventually recruited an army of Fuller Brush Men and "Fullerettes" that today numbers 25,000 and sells 325 varieties of household brushes, cosmetics and chemicals all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. According to Fuller's homespun philosophy, " 'American...
...camera-machine is as much the tool of an artist as a paintbrush. In a photograph, the artist can use his camera to produce as wide a range of effects as he could with different brush strokes on oil, tempera or water color. Like the painter, the photographer produces these results with varied techniques and the Fogg exhibit investigates them. Here we have a chance to see and compare the daguerreotype and the calotype, photogravure and gum-biochromate; platinum, palladium and cyanotype. I don't know the chemistry or history behind all these processes, but in this exhibit ignorance...
...usual in an emergency, they reacted with remarkable individuality. Floyd Wallace of Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren Savings Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat...