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...agent, a size 8-10 to the designer and, to herself, landlord over priceless property. She is undernourished (a pallid cheek is a cosmetic's best background), underweight (at an average height of 5 ft. 8 in., she weighs an average 112 Ibs., so that flesh does not detract from fabric cut), and overpaid (no less than $25 an hour, as much as $120). Her working life is short-at 30 she may drop overnight from a cover on Vogue to a back page in a mail-order catalogue. Few of her breed are known by name except...
...must be evident to at least some Americans that all this finger-pointing to the John Birch Society is just a Communist maneuver to detract attention from what they are doing. It would seem advisable for our responsible Government officials to spend less time harassing known Americans, and more enacting laws against the Communists for the protection of Americans. Then we would feel no need to band together in little groups for our very survival. And, incidentally, your survival...
...recently as 1957, Dr. Keys was still maintaining vigorously in public and in private that this talk about differences between vegetable and animal fats was sheer nonsense, that is to say, fats were fats and all of them were bad. None of the foregoing is intended to detract from Dr. Keys's interesting contributions regarding dietary habits of the world population...
Second, Kennedy, in making his massive entrance into the television business, faces the familiar risk of "over-exposure." Constant appearance by the President discussing trivial issues (as a weekly press conference is bound frequently to do) will detract seriously from those occasions when he has something important (and prepared) to say to the nation. Any device can be weakened by overuse, and the Kennedy television fireside should appear only when there is some real reason...
With other Kennedy acquaintances of the time, Holcombe thought that Jack's brother would overshadow him. Joe was the personality kid who wanted to be President, while Jack, like many another action of a well heeled family, had interests that tended to detract from politics and academics...