Word: powders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Green for Ruddy, Blue for Sallow. The trend became obvious two years ago, when Elizabeth Arden noticed a sudden sales increase on its Arden for Men line (which includes face cream and face mask, hair spray, brilliantine, three kinds of scent and two shades of powder). Sales doubled in 1962 and are running about 100% higher this year. Revlon and Lanvin have followed Elizabeth Arden into the masculine market; Clairol may soon join the parade...
Stage two, made by Hercules Powder Co., has new fuel, too, and 1,500 lbs. more of it. The casing, already of glass fiber in the A2, has been improved by a new lining to protect it from the new fuel's greater heat. Instead of nozzles for steering, it uses liquid Freon injected into the side of the gas stream...
Died. Samuel Sorenson Adams, 84, Danish-born founder (in 1909) and president of S. S. Adams Co. of Neptune, N.J., world's largest makers of sneezing powder, hidden buzzers, rubber lizards, squirting boutonnieres and other boffs, all of which he delighted in trying out on friends, relatives and casual acquaintances; of a heart attack; in, Asbury Park...
...multitude of bearded Berber tribes men played at war for her amusement. Outside the ancient, mud-walled city of Marrakech, the turbaned warriors wheeled and galloped, sending great swirls of dust toward the tent, fired their silver-banded muzzle-loaders into the air in thunderous explosions of good black powder...
...place-and appliances and television and all the rest in the valley-may illuminate much that has lain dark and shadowy for the people of the Yaak. At the Fields' place, for example, the lights will brighten walls that are hung with old rifles, a couple of powder horns, pictures of relatives in high lace collars and, of course, a photo of the President of the U.S.-Abe Lincoln...