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Almost all the good effects result from the drug's unrivaled ability to pass through human skin like a hot knife through butter. And since so many other drugs dissolve readily in DMSO, they can hitch a ride with it and quickly penetrate the horny (outer) layers of the skin, thus reaching hitherto inaccessible areas...
Stop the Music. Saigon's suburban battle seldom makes the headlines. It is still largely the sentry's war of short, sharp encounters: the bark of a close rifle, the sudden cough of automatic weapons, the crump of a single mortar, occasionally a scream as a knife finds its way through a rib cage. An "incident" may be anything from the skirmish of a dozen men to the blare of a propaganda bullhorn; whatever their nature, incidents are on the increase along the Gia Dinh perimeter. From February to April they averaged 37 a month. Through July...
...refrigerator or a dishwasher, most are in the $25-and-under price range and are often bought on impulse. The market is still cluttered with many gimmicks (electric whisk brooms and wastepaper baskets), but it has also made many onetime luxuries commonplace. Sales of ice crushers and combination electric knife sharpener-can openers are rising steadily; New York's Norjac Co. has done so well with its electric bread and plate warmers that it has just introduced a $12.95 electric sweater dryer. Dominion has brought out a manicure set and Osrow a refrigerator defroster. The housewife can also...
...literature at its best. Holler Calf Rope. "It was natural for me to be mean," McCauley confesses contentedly, and at 14 he was much too mean for East Texas. One day he tangled with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed it into his hip and started for the setting sun." Somewhere west of Jacksboro, Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight...
This is the aim of the Washington mission. Will they succeed in preserving their homes? Will Aliston become too loaded a political issue to ram the project through? Observers will just have to wait and see. At least one thing is certain, however: people with a knife sharpened either for urban renewal or for Mayor Collins will be watching with great interest indeed. And there are a lot of such people around...