Word: paras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemical Screen. Popular suntan lotions and creams increase tolerance to light rays by factors of four to six, said Dr. Knox. A cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive...
Wayward Bus Boy. In Boston another classified ad in the Herald called attention to a "BUS BOY. sober, wants work. Conscientious, rapid, accurate, honest, neat. Talk with Para-Psychologist. Like work-Cycle. Worked Sky-View Restaurant . . . Discharged for eating pie, ice cream...
...strictly binaural sounds from the lavishly designed exhibition rooms of this year's New England High Fidelity Music Show. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the show featured all conceivable kinds of music reproduction equipment, from the standards of Bogen, Scott and Electro-Voice to the Grundig, Grado and Glasser-Steers para-phernalia. Even radio stations such as WXHR maintained promotional booths featuring such novelties as FM car receivers...
...level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations of the Roman Catholic faithful knocked on doors, organized dances, showed documentary films depicting De Gasperi's life, the Hungarian revolt, and the economic progress made under Christian Democratic rule...
Only after he has slowed down to about 3,000 m.p.h. will the pilot be able to set his air brake -open a stainless steel para chute. The shock that this produces may be the worst...