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Russian women have long been anxious to get into the face race. The Gorky Street establishment, which for years had been getting quiet advice from Elizabeth Arden and the Paris Academy of Beauty, was already dispensing complexion cures (for 1 ruble, or $1.11) and facials (2 rubles) to as many as 1,500 customers a day. Apparently, their problems were serious. "In the opinion of the beauticians," reported Tass, "the most difficult thing is to convince the patients that the tragic defects in their appearance do not demand medical attention." Just in case they do, however, the institute...
...Treasury Secretaries, Truman's John Snyder and Eisenhower's Robert Anderson, are busy rallying industry to oppose the inclusion of another economist on the Board. They want business to urge on the Administration a single business candidate for the vacancy to insure that the Board's complexion remains as it is-and that Bill Martin stays where...
...then, suddenly, the whole complexion of the game shifted. Harvard shifted into a zone press, which baffled the Huskies. As the Crimson guards capitalized on repeated ball-handling errors. Sadlacek pumped in nine points inside five minutes. Harbard tied the score at 49-49 and gradually forged ahead, 61-55, with 4:40 to play...
Bothered Brethren. To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...
...fulminations. After all, during the 1958 congressional elections many Republican candidates campaigned on the right-to-work issue, arguing that the union shop was undemocratic. It was a classic blunder. Labor rose up that year, dashed Republican after Republican down to defeat for supporting 14(b), and changed the complexion of the U.S. Congress to a liberal hue that has not faded since...