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...branch of the government's National Revolutionary Movement-and all the magazines were stolen. A day later two La Paz papers ran translations of the story, including the point that the remark was in jest, but the official government newspaper La Nación banner-lined: TIME, THE FINGERNAIL OF IMPERIALISM'S VILE CLAW, OFFENDS BOLIVIA. Next morning 2,000 blue-jeaned high school students marched through downtown La Paz chanting "Down with imperialism!" and "Bolivia will not be a Yankee colony...
...possible to write on a hypersensitive skin with a fingernail. Like 'most mothers, I became resigned early to being less than nothing to my children. Thanks to your article, I'm now a heroine. We've been holding demonstrations until every exposed part of my anatomy is covered with the mark of Zorro, hearts, and initials from most of the neighborhood children. Any mother can raise biscuits, but how many can raise welts on demand? Perhaps you could find a use for this talent? If I were still in school I'd make a terrific walking...
Some people have skins so sensitive that it is possible to write on them with a fingernail or the smoothly curved end of a paper clip. This extreme sensitivity, called dermographia ("writing on the skin") is the usual explanation when patients complain that they are "allergic to everything," two Little Rock physicians reported in the A.M.A. Journal. Although the condition has been known for years, it is often overlooked and causes a lot of needless doctoring...
...wonderful creation without a counterpart elsewhere in literature. And Hyman, in and out of disguise as well as in and out of other people's pockets, makes the most of him, with his funny figure-4 stances, his weatherbeaten hat and purple beard, and his tooth-picking and fingernail-cleaning. The bit in which he joins with Barbara Barrie and June Ericson to sing a three-voice ballad is supremely hilarious...
...representatives. But the liveliest is fast-growing Revlon, run by aggressive Charles Revson, 51. Revson founded his company in 1932, built it up to a $95 million gross last year by advertising the elegance and glamorous names of his products, popularizing such ideas as matching lipstick and fingernail polish and a variety of shades. The undisputed sales genius of the industry, he colors it like a blob of his own fire-red nail polish, is as well known for chewing up admen and underlings as spitting out new ideas (TIME, Sept. 30). "I don't meet competition," he snaps...