Word: complements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Sometimes it does not seem they are even trying. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discothèques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have stocking to cover, and American males are scrambling for the best vantage point...
THIS week's cover story might well have been an Essay were it not for Artist Boris Artzybashefr's compelling fascination with the unhuman condition and his gift for rendering machines as covers. To complement his study of the care and feeding of a computer at work, the cover slash depicts a segment of five-channel, punched paper tape used to get man's message (known as "input" in the new vocabulary) into the machine. The story throws new light on how pervasive the computer is becoming in our society, but it also makes clear that...
Three Texas businessmen have mounted him on an air-conditioned 2½-ton truck with white aluminum walls enclosing a swiveling barber chair and the usual complement of up-to-the-minute accoutrements, including a television set. Mobil Barber Shop is what they call it, and the original idea, launched last week in San Antonio after a survey of housewives, was to specialize in children - thereby saving mothers the chore and possible embarrassment of escorting them to that last bastion of masculinity, once known as the tonsorial parlor...
...have still another. Ethacrynic acid, a synthetic compound discovered in 1960, has a dramatic diuretic effect even in patients who do not respond to other drugs, says a research team at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. It can be taken by mouth or, if necessary, injected. Its effects complement or enhance those of other diuretics, so that in critical cases doctors can give two medicines together for double the effect or more. Ethacrynic acid also seems to work in patients suffering from some degree of kidney failure. When the Food and Drug Administration approves the drug for general prescription...
...will shortly leave the Army; in the meantime, his brief military career is interesting, mainly as an illustration of the versatility, the pushing energy, and--its complement--the precocious worldly wisdom of the man. In less than four years he has seen something of three campaigns--not an ungenerous allowance for a field officer of longer service than Mr. Churchill counts years of life...