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...strikes or bombing pauses. What she does convey eloquently are the fears and anxieties of a fiercely devoted wife, especially during the last two bleak years. In 1967 the Johnsons entered what she calls "the Valley of the Black Pig."*She was frankly alarmed by demonstrators: "Through every pore, you sense a sort of animal passion . . . What if I had suddenly broken into a run?" What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance-shoulders square, head high, smile in place...
...something may soon be done about the root problem. Next week Senator Claiborne Pell's Education Subcommittee will hold hearings on a bill that would provide $10 million annually for environmental-including visual-education. During the hearings, the committee members (average age: 54) will be asked to pore over a book written expressly for 13-year-olds...
...mite abhors light, it remains burrowed beneath the surface of the skin during daytime, venturing forth only in the darkness. Thus, it cannot be detected even by careful scrutiny in front of a mirror. During its two-week life span, Demodex grows up, breeds and dies in the oily pores on the eyelid and elsewhere on man's face without attracting attention. It makes its presence known only when something upsets the ecological balance of the face, encouraging the mites to overpopulate. Then they cause swelling in an eyelash pore, or spread bacterial infections into adjacent follicles during their...
...wheelchair, but only with difficulty, and must be chauffeured to his press conferences and court appearances. Working with him are 30 or so volunteers whom Skolnick has organized into the Committee to Clean Up the Courts. Like him, most of them have grievances against the courts. Each week, they pore over stock records, title transfers and other documents for evidence of judicial mischief. The eyes and ears of Sherman's guerrilla army are a network of informers who range from lawyers and cops to federal agents...
Paraphernalia's Guy Paulin is more socially demanding; in his clothes, he wants to see a girl "of typical good family, a little hollow-chested. She can wear a slightly vulgar dress since she exhales good family through every pore of her body." For Designer Leo Narducci, it is not so much a specific size or class of woman who can wear his clothes as it is a certain type, one who "is sure of herself, who thinks of sex more openly. If a guy isn't agreeable to her, she'll find someone else...