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Dear Ann Landers: I'm a mail carrier and my job starts at 8 a.m. This is time enough for women to get a dress on and run a comb through their hair. Most housewives look so terrible it's enough to spoil a man's day. The Mailman
...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...
...stolid fellow, the rude ancestor of the modern Volvo executive. He does not even have a horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against disaster. He cannot keep his gold in a sock (archaeology has not so far produced a Viking sock, though the Met has some withered shoes in a glass case...
More boyish. But what's a cadet going to do with comb, handkerchief and notebook without a pocket? Especially a female cadet. Put them in her hat, of course. Every time they took their hats off, the women plebes would scramble around picking up their belongings. "You would have thought that they would have looked into the uniforms before we came here," grumbles one of the women. "The jackets they gave us made us look like ten-ton trucks...
...little innocent blackmail." Anderson cabled, KEKE WOULD YOU STILL COME TO ME? Shewired back, DARLING INTERPRET WORDS AS PROPOSAL, and asked him to sendmoney. He did. Keke today is an ebullient woman of 48 who pinches and flirts with Anderson, advises him on everything from how to comb his hair to political strategy-she really persuaded him to run -and works crowds on her own. "I'm the humanizing element in this campaign," she says...