Word: razors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wear frilly aprons because they are a symbol of service. Now the jobs are coveted not so much for the higher pay as for the chance to meet eligible men. In Athens a maid who was warned to be thorough in her cleaning dismantled a guest's electric razor so completely that it could not be put back together again...
...those who shave use an after-shave lotion, and 63% use an electric razor...
While they talk bravely of the future and are confident that old habits die hard, tobaccomen are hedging by diversifying their interests. U.S. Tobacco now makes candy too. Philip Morris has bought out Burma-Shave, Clark Chewing Gum and American Safety Razor (Personna, Pal, Gem). R. J. Reynolds has gone into several lines from fruit punch to packaging...
...existence. The latest is a new short story called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories in the book) precisely because it seems to carry Greene a razor's edge closer to despair than did A Burnt-Out Case, his most recent novel...
...administration. With a $1,320,000 grant from the government, Jorge Acosta, one of Mexico's top archaeologists, enlisted 550 laborers to start the picks and shovels working. Behind the diggers came a task force of 37 archaeologists and restorers, carefully gathering everything from stone dartheads to obsidian razor blades. By last week, after the months of excavation, even the most optimistic archaeologists realized that they had vastly underestimated the true size and scope of Teotihuacán. Said Acosta: "This is by far the biggest, most wonderful city of pre-Conquest America. It was bigger in area than...