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...after the whites find out that the color doesn't rub off," said a Negro sergeant at the Air Force's big Lackland base at San Antonio. There, under the Air Force's 13-month-old policy of nondiscrimination, Negroes and whites had been sleeping in the same barracks, eating at the same mess tables, dancing at the same service clubs, using the same swimming pools. Last week, in broader terms and in careful officialese, President Truman's committee on discrimination reported a surprising amount of quiet progress in all the armed forces...
...Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury, somewhat flabbergasted at what it had learned, made public an interim report of its findings...
...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...
...best way to get rid of acne scars, Plastic Surgeon William G. McEvitt of Detroit announced last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
McCarthy's zest for chance, life, personal combat and the power of wealth seems undiminished. He still likes to rub his hands in thick, crude oil and mutter...