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...boundaries of the cities, where closed and darkened newsstands represent the job losses of 22,800 newspaper workers and 1,500 newsstand dealers. The cruise ships that haul sun-seeking tourists to West Indies souvenir shops are having trouble filling their cabins without newspaper advertising. Even airlines feel the pinch, and Northeast Airlines had to cancel its package tours to Florida for lack of customers. In New York itself the strike has also imperiled the jobs of 11,000 workers in the wastepaper industry, who look on the daily newspaper not only as a source of news...
...amateur beside him: "Say, you still using that greasy kid stuff?"). Greasy Kid Stuff was invented last summer as a gag. Its college-boy creators. Bill Cole and Larry Frohman, each invested $50, mixed up a batch of mineral oil and lanolin in a lard can, threw in a pinch of spice perfume, churned the whole with an egg beater, and turned out 120 bottles of Stuff. Their advertising was built in: the $10 million Bristol-Meyers campaign for Vitalis worked wonders for that Greasy Kid Stuff too. And since greasy kids like their greasy hair greasy, the original supply...
...busily studying the cells in the hypoglossus (tongue-controlling nerve) of the female cat when he realized that a little dark spot in each nucleus was never found in the cells of males. Then he learned that this was true of all mammals, including man. Now, a tiny pinch of skin or mucous membrane, examined under the microscope, will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl, and what surgery is indicated. With abnormal chromosomes, mental retardation is often...
...make of Garbo's wonderful film Ninotchka it pretends to be: it is really one long burlesque skit, as its title suggests, recalling the glorious days when our forefathers went to hear Milton Berle or Ed Wynn or Phil Silvers crack jokes that hurt, and pinch backsides that apparently couldn't be. Even in the generally disastrous first act of Silk Stockings--when the scenery is swaying, and the music is too soft when people are singing, and too loud behind them when they're talking--there are moments when everybody decides to drop the foolishness of the plot...
...after an artillery barrage, 1,000 Indian jawans (G.I.s) stormed into "the forward slopes of the Chinese position in spite of heavy enemy fire." The Chinese counterattack was beaten off and, at day's end the fighting flared north and west of Walong as the Chinese tried to pinch off the Indian salient in their lines...