Word: masks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black car sped up to a 1951 Ford station wagon and waved it to the curb. Out stepped a man in the uniform of a New York City special policeman. He stuck a pistol into his victim's face while another man, also armed and wearing a Halloween mask, appeared on the other side of the Ford. The thieves knew what they wanted. Inside the old station wagon, guarded by six unarmed messengers, was a load of jewelry and gold bullion valued at some $3,000,000. It was a routine transfer of valuables between wholesalers and repair firms...
...Reas reports in the Southern Medical Journal that he used a new mist-making drug, N-acetylcysteine (trade named Mucomyst by Mead Johnson & Co.) on 28 patients aged 7 to 22. He clapped a face mask on his patients twice a day, before meals, and got them to inhale Mucomyst aerosol supplied under gentle pressure by a small pump. After 20 minutes, each bedridden child was turned into assorted head-down positions to help him spit out the mucus. Stronger children got rid of the mucus by taking a short but brisk run, which started them coughing...
...surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside his graven image, discard his mask of duplicity He has succeeded where few contemporaries have even dared to try in marrying today's religious concerns with the visual arts...
Green for Ruddy, Blue for Sallow. The trend became obvious two years ago, when Elizabeth Arden noticed a sudden sales increase on its Arden for Men line (which includes face cream and face mask, hair spray, brilliantine, three kinds of scent and two shades of powder). Sales doubled in 1962 and are running about 100% higher this year. Revlon and Lanvin have followed Elizabeth Arden into the masculine market; Clairol may soon join the parade...
...mask called Sudden Youth is a big seller at Jerry's barbershop on Madison Avenue, where the favorite tinting color is Banker's Grey and a new hair-styling by Jerry himself costs $25. About half of his clients are show biz; the rest are executives, and they are the ones that care. "A lot of actors don't worry about what they look like except when they're onstage," says Jerry. "But a businessman has to think about it all the time...