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...anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs a custom wig salon. But Daniel Eastman, a leading Beverly Hills skin-care specialist, protests that it is an "outrageous" fad, and a number of dermatologists back him up. Some doctors explain that Preparation H works on the face by slightly irritating the skin, thus causing enough swelling to minimize small wrinkles; continued...
...Italian Custom. According to a 1972 audit by Exxon, a number of bookkeeping stratagems were used to hide the payments. One was to fill out vouchers for goods that were never received. Monroe said Exxon executives were persuaded to keep the payments secret by Cazzaniga, who reported that that was the custom in Italy. Pointing out that camouflaging the payments also enabled the company to deduct them from its Italian income taxes, Subcommittee Chairman Frank Church of Idaho charged that Exxon was practicing "a fraud on the Italian government." Moreover, subcommittee experts reckon that the favorable legislation resulting from...
...orphaned, and raised in the forbidding London home of a pious uncle. When she is so light-minded as to laugh aloud at the antics of a bird in the garden, he whips her neck with a watch chain. The child accurately notes that it was indeed the custom to birch girls on the bared portions of their anatomies, but adds that nevertheless it was "inexpressibly painful...
...period. In 1514, John of Ragusa offered to poison anybody selected by the government of Venice for an annual salary of fifteen hundred ducats . . . In the same period the cardinals brought their own butlers and wine to a papal coronation dinner for fear they might otherwise be poisoned; this custom is reported to have been general in Rome, without the host's taking offense...
...HUMAN EQUALITY. The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of . . . The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom and education...