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Basic Black. The return to classic clothes is giving added impetus to the rush toward the "more sophisticated" look. Longer skirts, heavier fabrics and the once again popular basic black demand an accenting feature, and this season it will be a colorful face. No firm seems more confident of that trend than London's Biba Cosmetics, which already is selling lipsticks in Prune and Magenta shades. This fall, Biba will add to its lipstick line two colors that are bound to make men happy to see red: Matisse Green and Royal Blue...
McMillan's excitement went beyond the light experiment. Hundreds of technicians, engineers and scientists had worked since March at modifying the Berkeley Bevatron-which was designed for experiments with high-energy protons-to accelerate even heavier particles: nitrogen ions. As a result, McMillan announced at a press conference last week, nitrogen nuclei had been boosted to 36 billion electron volts, the highest energy level ever attained for such heavy particles in a laboratory...
...afternoon, however, the picture is grim. Early evening television news programs have hurt afternoon newspaper sales everywhere in the nation. Besides, compared with morning papers, afternoon editions are costlier to put out because they require faster distribution for a big street sale, more labor for heavier press runs, and frequent front-page replates to provide up-to-the-minute, eye-catching headlines. Chicago Today recently passed the Daily News in circulation, 438,000 to 425,000, while the News, thanks to a higher-income readership, carries 72% of all afternoon advertising. But annual losses are nonetheless estimated at about...
...Some say it's because the rightfield power alley in Pittsburgh's new Three Rivers Stadium is 23 ft. shorter than it was in Forbes Field, the Pirates' old home. Others explain that Willie is using a new bludgeon of a bat that is four ounces heavier and two inches longer than his old model. Stargell, 30, has a simpler theory: "It could just be me coming into...
...minutes in Galesburg. A load of lumber on the local freight ahead of us has shifted dangerously, so that car must be set out on a siding. Though a fast train like Super C means less working time for the crews, Burk says he prefers handling a longer, heavier train: "It's the difference between a Sunday outing in the family sedan and driving a racing car. Here you've got a lot of power and you've got to keep the speed...