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...designed to combine a strictly regulated minimum of decorum with yet a more than adequate hint of charm and personality undisclosed. The vivid colours, the high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb and beat of the swirling paces, the glow of sweat, the shining eyes of enthusiasm, all combined in a vivid phantasmagoria of colour and of sheer physical, animal magnetism...
...power sweep is Yovicsin's "bread and butter" series. In theory, it concentrates pressure at one point in the defensive wall, depending on strong running backs to make it work--a commodity which is plentiful on the Harvard squad...
...over twenty Harvard men armed with transistor radios, soda pop, peanut butter and rum were huddled on the porch. They had had visits from the police ("Just like lining up for theatre tickets, huh?"), eight town girls ("What're you guys doing up there?"), four young men from Cambridge in a car who threw eggs, and two freshman, deans. The students started a list of arrivees which was used as a guide by section men in the morning...
Automakers call their lowest-priced, highest-selling models "bread-and-butter lines." For South Bend's Studebaker Corp., which introduced its bread-and-butter '64 models last week, the term has a hungry meaning. Despite the uphill drive of athletic President Sherwood Egbert, 43, Studebaker's share of the auto market slipped from a precarious 1.12% last year to a disastrous 0.9% in the first eight months of this year. While every other automaker was rolling to fat and happy records, Studebaker's sales through August dropped to fewer than 44,000 cars, and the company...
...right mix of fruit that goes into the company's tutti-frutti ice cream, instructs the ice cream-making machinery just what grade and quantity of ice cream to make. In the kitchens of Sara Lee bakeries, another one stores recipes and orders the proper amount of butter and eggs; soon, it will also control the cake mixes, ensure that they are baked at the right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction of a 34-story...