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...Rouben Ter-Arutunian. They were, he thought, too baggy. Whereupon he went out and got a pair so tight he was a sight. When Rouben tinted the pants dark brown, Ruggieri went into a rage. "You ruined them!" he cried. "You dyed them!" "I didn't dye them, I painted them!" huffed Rouben. "I'm a painter, not a dyer!" Moaned Director Menotti: "Why is it that an Englishman is always adjusting his tie, a Frenchman is always checking his pocket for his wallet, and Italians are always showing themselves off in tight pants...
Mouths Agape. As promised, the Mountbatten committee went right to work, toured the biggest prisons and interviewed inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...
...BEAUTY. Few if any of the so-called modern cosmetics are new. Besides shaving off unwanted hair with primitive razors, using rouge, shading their eyes and coloring their lips and nails, women of antiquity stained the soles of their feet with henna and touched up their nipples with purple dye. Perfume was first used at sacred shrines to cover the stench of animals being burned as sacrifices. "Perfume" comes from the Latin, meaning "through the smoke...
...cock Mutual Life Insurance Co., the nation's fifth largest insurance firm. Using them, salesmen have so far written about $1,500,000 worth of policies for farmers and small-town businessmen. The man who conceived the idea had reason to believe that it would succeed. Robert E. Dye, 51, a John Hancock vice president, worked his way through the University of California as a Good Humor man, shifted the chocolate-coated sell from ice cream to insurance...
...Dye was concerned because his San Francisco office handles twelve largely rural states where farmers have plump incomes - in California they average $12,000 yearly - but tend to buy little insurance. "Life insurance isn't pur chased," he says, "it's sold. So it is vital to take the product to the potential buyer and show it to him." Dye spent $12,000 on two vans, equipped them much more thoroughly than ordinary autos ever could be, and laid out the interiors so that the salesman's desk blocks the doors, making it difficult for a prospect...