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...problem of price cuts v. production cuts is not a simple, either/or proposition. There are many other ways to counteract falling sales, among them the introduction of new or improved products, harder selling, more advertising, a switch to lower-priced lines. A manufacturer of lipstick cases, for instance, can substitute steel for more expensive brass in his product; a TV-set maker can concentrate on table models; a chemical producer can cut back some products while pushing others...
Wearing a slash of scarlet lipstick and dashes of mascara across her scanty eyelashes, Miss Ruth explained something of how she does it: "I've been flirting with Gayelord Hauser, eating yoghurt and all those things. At the merry age of 73, one has to watch for a gathering around the hips. I never drink or smoke." She also practices yoga every morning...
...glass of milk and drained it. Then he finally strolled out and was gone. He was arrested in only a few hours-his automobile had no plates, and while this kept anyone from jotting down his license number, it made the car as conspicuous as a Brooklyn girl without lipstick...
Last week's picket line was composed solely of Guild members, predominantly female. Instead of a clout on the head, nonstrikers who braved the line (including Beck's Teamsters) were threatened by women strikers with a lipstick smear on the collar. When Times executives arrived for work, the picket lines parted, polite greetings were exchanged on both sides. Said Assistant City Editor Don Brazier (whose father is the paper's editor) as he walked the picket line: "Nobody is mad at the Times, yet we are determined to win the increase we know we have coming...
...Francisco, some teen-agers dye their hair green. Others pencil their eyebrows in red, paint cat's whiskers on their faces, wear purple lipstick. Their hats are trimmed with swizzle sticks, foxtails and pipe cleaners. Shouting the password "Zorch!" (fuzz-beard lingo for Hollywood's "colossal!"), they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard. In five months "Red" Blanchard, 33, has zoomed from a routine job as staff announcer at station KCBS to a position that his pressagents describe...