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...mammary obsession that Playboy profitably discerns in Americans. Says Publisher Tattilo: "The U.S. is a matriarchy. I think this is the reason for the American male preference for women with exaggerated, voluminous bosoms, true wet nurses with a reassuring maternal aspect." The women she chooses for Playmen are slimmer, cooler, more urbane and more mature than Hefner's coed cuties. Hefner's girls giggle and eat ice cream; Tattilo's taste centers on women who might smile over a Campari...
...spring's Supreme Court decision (Illinois v. Allen), which sanctioned contempt citations, gagging or expulsion of obstreperous defendants. But equally significant, the American Civil Liberties Union has chosen as attorney for two of the defendants a brilliant young U.C.L.A. law professor - Michael Tigar, 29 - who is abler and cooler than William Kunstler of Chicago fame...
...EVEN cooler, Miami night. Cars slither up and down Collins Avenue, making those whoosh sounds that cars seem to make only when there is a beach nearby. Inside, big flower arrangements, place-cards, mounds of chicken liver, egg rolls, glasses clinking, uncles running around flashing Instamaties, loud laughter, embraces...
Foreign nations retaliate against the new U.S. restrictions, and angry U.S. politicians and businessmen press Nixon to hit back by putting up barriers against an even longer list of imports. Cooler heads in all nations warn that such a cycle of retaliation and counterretaliation, carried to the extreme, can have the most chilling consequences. The last such spiral began duringand did much to deepenthe Great Depression. But the margin for good sense is slim, as the world teeters on the brink of a trade war that no one wanted...
...collected samples of a Japanese dwarf strain that had already been improved by a U.S. Agriculture Department scientist named Orville Vogel and crossed it with native Mexican wheat and other strains with desirable qualities. By growing them in both the hot, parched fields of northern Mexico and the higher, cooler regions near Mexico City, Borlaug eventually succeeded in producing a totally new strain. It was one that was hardy, resistant to toppling, and also well suited to Mexico's diverse climates and soils...