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Cucumber Cream. Organic materials have been used in cosmetics for years, but only in small amounts (to lend eye lids "the impudent luster of fresh celery") and always with a chemical preservative added to extend shelf life. Today, as a direct byproduct of the back-to-nature health-food boom and the growing concern about ecology, beauty products of purely natural ingredients are being marketed at an ever-increasing rate. Explains Los Angeles Cos metologist Gwen Seager Taylor: "Regular commercial products may not be harmful, but they are like eating white bread with preservatives added. Natural cosmetics, like whole-grain...
...recedence," and Former Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin once spoke of an economic "slope." Now the Manhattan-based National Bureau of Economic Research, the organization that decides which business movements merit the term recession, is joining the naming game. Ruminating about the present "episode," Vice President F. Thomas luster says: "We are thinking of labeling it a 'retardation...
Motorcycle Monks. The rest of the program is devoted to a sampling of the company's favorite showstoppers; familiarity does not dim their luster. In Partisans, a cadre of dancers glides mysteriously across the stage in voluminous black cloaks, suggesting a team of monkish motorcycle racers. The finale is perhaps the most extraordinary Moiseyev dance of them all-a Ukrainian gopak in which half a dozen tireless soloists outbound each other in a sequence of eye-dazzling maneuvers that defy both gravity and credibility...
Since the demand for news of Jackie is obviously there, it may be that the Jackie watchers are the real bores. If overexposure has dimmed her luster as a public figure, too much print and portraiture has done even greater damage to the staying power of other notables. Consider the following, who are all but universally regarded as public bores: HUGH HEFNER, who has spared no expense to disseminate his Playboy philosophy of name-brand hedonism among the taboo-haunted unswingers of the Western world...
Like most conglomerates, once-glamorous Litton Industries has been struggling through troubled times lately. But last week the company regained some of its old luster by snaring one of the biggest defense awards in history-a $2.1 billion Navy contract to build 30 destroyers. The vessels will be constructed during the next eight years by Litton's Ingalls Shipbuilding Division at Pascagoula, Miss...