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...more expensive. However, given the well-documented reluctance of many men to wear condoms, it may provide some women with their only means of protection. A recent study found that among sexually active young women, only 20% have partners who use condoms. "Women need the option," says Mary Ann Leeper, senior vice president for development at Wisconsin Pharmacal. "Right now, she has to ask him to wear a condom. If he says no, she has no option...
Tackle Ken Leeper, onetime Marine sergeant, became so enthusiastic that he dieted down from 275 Ibs. to 235 Ibs. and registered for an all-women's course in modern dance. He was accepted, and by mid-semester was elected to Orchesis, the honorary dancing society. Leeper did his own choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block...
...stock, low rates (fixed by the Government) and truck competition cut into dividends; for years the British owners have been dickering to sell out. Last week's ceremony in the Salon Blanco of the Casa Rosada (Government House), where Economic Czar Miguel Miranda and British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper (for the British shareholders) signed the bill of sale, finally ended the negotiations...
...telephone company purchase a few weeks earlier (TIME, Sept. 16). The same Argentine officials crowded the Salón Blanco at Government House, the same newsreel cameras ground away. Juan Perón was present, smart in a grey lounge suit. Then British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper stepped forward to sign his Government's new trade agreement with Argentina...
...other ambassadors presented themselves last week to Argentina's no-longer-isolated Government. Britain's Sir Reginald Leeper docked in the fog to report "great interest [in Britain] in the Argentine market." When Brazil's João Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian...