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...unsuccessfully to perfect a small electric razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments in the weightless environment of the spacecraft. The Apollo 10 astronauts had a simpler solution. They broke out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream and attacked their week-old beards in the traditional manner. The bristles were successfully contained in gobs of shaving cream that were scraped from their faces and collected in a towel. Said Cernan: "That's one of the most refreshing things that's happened...
...husband. So she began a line of men's cosmetics and toilet goods named after her husband. With her new plant, she plans to expand Gourielli production (which now includes some items for women), is certain that men cannot get along without such products as her brushless shaving cream. It contains "amazing active ozone [releasing] vital oxygen . . . beneficial to tender skin...
Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers. From Florida to the Great Lakes, mosquitoes almost ate them alive ("How cruelly they persecuted us," cried Champlain). In the brushless eastern forests, mammoth trees, standing almost trunk to trunk, rose to heights of 80 feet before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson...
Preliminary laboratory tests, says Dr.Hyser, have shown a "tremendous" reduction in the number of bacteria in the mouth after the brushless cleaning. Other tests are still to be made, but he is convinced it will keep tartar from forming. It cleans along the gum line, where many cavities start, and between the teeth. About 200 samples of slightly different designs are now being used by other dentists and by Dr. Hyser's patients...
...liniment flopped. A new shaving cream, a brushless one concocted by a company chemist, did little better, until Allan got his big idea. One day in 1926, he climbed into his car, drove out into the country near Minneapolis, posted signs so spaced and inscribed that a speeding motorist could read as he rode...