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...most comprehensive and insistently organic cosmetics. Gwen Seager Taylor's line - Cosmetic Originals by Gwen-is distributed through health-food stores in California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts of carrots, beets, eggplant, raspberries and blueberries; her face powder is a translucent blend of rice and corn. Of particular benefit to smog-bound skins are the natural-enzyme creams ($6) that "literally digest pollution" by dissolving toxic oils. Sallow, freckled or fading complexions are promised brighter days with Lights Up, a lotion of organic cucumbers and lemons...
Marquise Milkmaid. This coquette of Versailles, with a pound of powder and pomade on her hair, ended up in moccasins on farms outside Albany, making cider, bending over the family laundry and rising at 3 a.m. to milk the cows. One evening her old friend Talleyrand strolled unannounced into the yard as she prepared a roast. Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty...
Died. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf, 84, noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits...
...company is now expanding into a potentially rich new area. Aiming to capitalize on the swiftly growing demand for black cosmetics, Johnson Products has begun test-marketing a low-priced line of liquid makeup, face powder and skin cleaner. The items, formulated to complement black skin tones, come in shades of browns, tans and reds. "Our future growth will depend on how well we do in cosmetics," says Johnson, 43. Until recently, white-owned companies virtually ignored the demand for black cosmetics, and most of the black firms in the field are still small and regional. With his company...
...blotting paper, gun powder and sealing...