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...Lift for Men The Orient is not the only place where loss of face is avoided at all costs. Western women for years have been paying plastic surgeons to smooth over the wrinkles of time. Men, however, have usually accepted the inevitability of the sagging jowl, droopy eyelid and other facial evidence of aging...
Screaming boys line the spitting range, older folks crowd up in folding aluminum chairs, and the bleachers sag under the weight of several hundred cheek-to-jowl spectators as Don Snyder begins his assault on the distance crown. The 22 entrants spew down the range. There are three rounds, and Snyder on his first try comes to within a foot of George Craft's 13-year-old record. On the second round he narrows the difference to less than two inches. Then Snyder arches his last shot 25 ft. 10 in. for a new world's record...
...reporters agreed that they had learned quite a lot. "I'm an editor," Michael Curtis reflected, "and my job is behind the desk. This brought me jowl to jowl with people and places I would otherwise have never seen. These people have decided to take charge of their own lives." Said John Herbers, a veteran civil rights reporter: "The situation changes so fast you have to keep going back. I was surprised at the extent of activity in these communities. Also surprising was the unity among them on what their purpose is, despite organizational fragmentation...
Many whites, of course, are opposed to apartheid; in 1960 Verwoerd survived an assassination attempt by an anti-apartheid white farmer who shot him in the ear and jowl at a Johannesburg cattle show. But the opposition
Bangkok bustles with evidences of the pursuit of sanouk, or pleasure, the mainspring of Thai life. Busy asphalt boulevards are supplanting the ancient, lettuce-clogged klongs-the canals where Thais still fish, drink, bathe and eat the lettuce. Venerable Siamese villas with cupolas like bowler hats squat cheek by jowl with neon-lit bars, cinemas and boxing pits. The jet age has made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet...