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...must import the other three-fourths of the 200,000 bbl. daily consumption at an annual cost of $250 million-roughly equal to the current year's trade deficit. All the oil comes from a single area in Bahia, and Bahia crude is heavy and high in paraffin content, useful mostly for waxes, asphalt and fuel...
...Ph.D. from Vienna ($12), she hops into a 3O-minute bubble bath with froth 3 ft. high ($5). Her skin is then defuzzed of superfluous hair by a wax treatment ($26). She can have an infrared treatment ("Detoxicates-very effective after a good drinking night") at $10 or a paraffin application at $15 to lose a pound or two. Then comes a facial, in which her face is coated with cream ("Voilaá, I begin"), massaged ("Facial care begins at the collarbone") and sprayed with a salty liquid for "disturbed skin" ($9). To top it off she goes...
...much as $280 each: place a large, fresh white canvas on the floor, pour paint and printer's ink on the canvas, jump up and down on the paint, dance and skip over the surface, ride over the canvas on a bicycle, soak the canvas in paraffin, shovel sand on the painting to give it "added texture...
...against spitballs, so with a cud of chewing tobacco or a wad of slippery elm, a clever man could keep the ball hopping all afternoon. After roughing up one side of the ball, pitchers used to shine the other side on a part of their uniform heavily dosed with paraffin. Thus treated, the ball would really dance...
...various races, corresponding to Josephine's seven adopted children; 2) waxen images of Josephine and the tots striding up a hill topped by a cross; 3) a figure of Josephine's husband, French Jazz Maestro Jo Bouillon, on his knees to receive the blessing of a paraffin Pope Pius...