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Nanorchestes antarcticus, a species of pink mite discovered recently near the South Pole, needs no fur at all to keep warm. But Manhattan's Mary Sanford, wife of Socialite Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, winters at Palm Beach, and Florida this year has been chilly enough to turn even the minks pink. "Your jacket seems to have picked up a glow from your ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins...
Shot from a Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping...
...fight and, as the Feb. 9 union election approaches, a bitter campaign is being fought. It is replete with denunciation and sarcasm, lapel buttons and helmet stickers, kleig lights and sound trucks at mill gates and union halls. Abel portrays McDonald as a has-been who prefers nightclubs and Palm Springs to the open hearth and McKeesport, calls for the rejection of "tuxedo unionism," and charges that the Steelworkers have suffered from McDonald's "happy-go-lucky, old-buddy, old-pal negotiations" with industry. McDonald, warming to the fight and seeming to pick up strength as he does, belittles...
ICOMI has been so successful, in fact, that it is beginning to make its presence felt all over Brazil. It recently joined with Sweden's SKF to build a ball bearing plant near São Paulo, is making plans to expand into the sugar, plywood and palm-oil businesses. With world manganese prices once more moving up after a slump, ICOMI expects soon to have even more money for seed capital and diversification...
...rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, making as much as $200,000 a year on radio and TV until he was caught accepting some $30,000 in record-company payola in 1959, got a six months' suspended sentence and faded from earshot; of uremia; in Palm Springs, Calif...