Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Money. While they harass and hope, the rebels are worrying plenty about the makeup of their movement. To help pay the bills, they take soiled money in Miami from ex-President Prio. Leadership is split between Castro himself, the Havana plotters and a shadow government of sympathetic exiles in Miami. The conservatives at the top fear that the longer they stay behind their desks while Castro is in the hills getting headlines, the smaller their influence on him will be. Recently he summoned five of the Havana brains to the hills for a conference, and they had to turn...
CAROL STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best...
...four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout the country, women are stepping out into a bright new world of universities and industry, of monthly paychecks and partnership in the home, of planned parenthood and Max Factor makeup. In the red-light districts of some larger cities the veil, instead of being the hallmark of respectability, is now worn chiefly by harlots as protective coloration...
...trade in his 1950 city Cadillac, and won't even use it in his campaign rounds. He is the most powerful big-city mayor in the U.S., has the say-so over almost 7,000 municipal jobs, keeps tight rein on a nine-man city council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have...
There are many who look at the figures and say, even if they are correct they will make no difference in the makeup and attitudes of the college. They note that a school like Exeter has a scholarship program for better than 25% of its students. Such prep school students are by no means the sons of rich men, and thus have a more than ample desire to prove themselves. They also note that more and more students attend preparatory schools nowadays. The graduates of many preparatory schools are by no means "preppie". Today even middle class parents have enough...