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...have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
Prehistoric man, a history of shaving relates, shaved with clams and animal teeth, or pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century...
...sales allure, many of the current ads reveal considerably more skin and make a far racier pitch than ever before. One ad, for example, shows a man clad in little but shaving cream, his eyes closed, one arm tightly embracing a scantily clad woman as she wields the razor. The object being promoted: Swatch watches, a trendy Swiss brand. Sure enough, on second look, each is wearing two of them. The broken taboo: seduction in the bathroom...
Mockler, a member of the Corporation since 1982, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Boston based Gillette Company, the giant personal-care products concern that had revenues of $5.9 billion last year Gillette, according to company spokesman Doug Kenney, owns one razor blade and toiletries manufacturing plant in Springs, South Africa which employs 200 people (out of a company-wide work force of 76,100), including some Blacks. For the past seven years, Kenney says, Gillette has scored the highest rating for its adherence to the Sullivan Principles, a set of six equal opportunity provisions for companies doing...
Dole had started the week with a razor-thin victory. Ever since Reagan went on television last month to argue for his compromise budget, designed to cut spending by $300 billion over three years, Dole has been pushing for a Senate vote that would endorse the package as a whole. But the majority leader ran into trouble keeping his own party members in line. After two weeks of exhorting his troops while delaying the vote, he ended up making concessions to a few reluctant Republicans to win a 50-to-49 victory...