Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...
...tinted women, estimated at one out of three v. one out of ten in 1952, are not reluctant to admit it-except for the greying, who color their hair to look younger. They consider themselves truly liberated. In the days when Cinemactress Jean Harlow showed women a thing or two about the man-catching qualities of platinum blonde hair, the business of hair-dyeing was a secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same...
...finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered up a ladder and with no preliminary sketches drew dancing goddesses across the wall of a chapel with an ease and grace that made genius look simple. The stunning close-ups of his works (pink eyes, blue breasts) provided color-conscious NBC with its best argument for color...
...free licensing rights from RCA and General Electric on black-and-white TV equipment, including tubes. It got similar rights on common-carrier communications equipment from Western Electric and the Bell System. At Philco Corp., which in 1956 filed a still pending $150 million antitrust suit against RCA involving color TV patents, nobody was talking yet. But after Zenith broke the ice, RCA's patent pool seemed to be thawing at last...
...COLOR-TV SALES are doing so well after slow start that RCA will bring out five new models, expand its line to 16. RCA says sales are 200% over last year, but mass market is still far from being tapped...