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Almost unnoticeably, other features have been fading. First to go was the vivid mouth. By 1961 beige lipsticks, or maybe the faintest pink or tangerine, were de rigueur. Next, bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have to go. Cosmeticians have decided they are merely distracting. Short of shaving them off (shaved brows sometimes won't grow back), the experts are advocating any camouflage method: bleaching, masking them with foundation creams, or even covering them up with a fringe of bangs...
Furrowed Brow. Of all the newcomers, Peanuts, which arrived on the comics page 15 years ago, is by far the most appealing. And Charlie Brown, the principal Peanut, is a likely candidate for most popular kid in the country. With the merest wisp of hair and a perpetually furrowed brow, Charlie gazes blankly on a world that is far too ferocious for him. Each strip is usually a lesson, complete in itself, on the futility of good intentions. "Believe in me," Charlie cries, but no one pays any attention. When he calls to apologize for being late to a party...
...troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make it easy to turn down aid, have all refused to accept the merest Red cent...
...article in the Observer (London) and the Boston Sunday Globe, Galbraith attributed Goldwater's ability to sew up the nomination to modern methods of communication and travel. A comvention, he said, has become "the merest formality." "Had there been more primaries, there would have been no Goldwater," he said...
...merest formality, the coup de gráce, and then everyone could adjourn to the clubhouse for the popping of the corks. There stood "Champagne Tony" Lema at last week's Cleveland Open, 15 under par, with just a one-foot putt between him and $20,000-and everybody knows that golf pros do not miss one-foot putts. But there was a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Ever so casually, Tony stepped up to the ball. Ever so casually, he pushed it right around the hole...