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While boosting her quantity, Helena Rubinstein still keeps a sharp eye on the quality trade. In her salons, women who can afford to pay $25 for a "Day of Beauty" are stretched, exercised, rubbed, scrubbed, wrapped in hot blankets, bathed in infra-red rays, massaged, fed a lunch of 21 raw vegetables, then given a face treatment, pedicure, manicure, scalp treatment, shampoo and hairdo. But she candidly admits that most women can take care of their complexions with a couple of creams and ten minutes' daily attention. For her own skin she mainly uses a simple lotion, containing nothing...
...energetic environment valve in which the Fullers flux-ate when Bucky is at home is definitely non-Dymaxion and infra-geodesic: a two-room Queens apartment with bath and kitchenette such as might have served a young couple beginning married life modestly in 1912. The living room is furnished in a combination of advanced geometric shapes and Chinese prints; there are some books, a head of Bucky sculptured in chromium, and a photograph of his beautiful daughter, Allegra. Mrs. Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling...
...attraction first started the pair raising catepillars. They read a Time magazine story in the fall of 1949 which advanced a new theory that "the female moths supposedly attract males from seven miles away by means of infra red radiations" and set about to disprove it. "We think we did," Dane said, "for last spring we extracted the chemical that is probably responsible for the attracting odor...
...temperature of the nearby air had no effect. Warm objects could be detected by the pit organ even through the cold air of a refrigerated room. But when a sheet of glass, opaque to long infra-red rays, was placed between the snake and a warm object, it "blinded" the pit. Drs. Bullock and Cowles conclude that the pit is a sort of "heat eye," sensitive to the infra-red rays that come from warm objects. It detects cold objects by giving less response than it does to the snake's room-temperature surroundings. A glass of water only...
...pure animal cunning, there is nothing that beats the "infra-supra ploy." You know that something is true, and you know the professor knows it is true, but you'll be hanged if you know why. So you launch into a scholarly essay on the subject. The first time you reach the point in question, you state the correct conclusion and in parenthesis say "infra" i.e. this will be proved later. Next comes eight or nine pages of malarkey--ponderous, confusing, perhaps even relevant in spots. Then you reach the conclusion, in which you restate the known "correct position...