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There were other problems inside the hotel. Without running water, toilets became clogged; without electricity, food spoiled in the refrigerators. The atmosphere began to grow fetid. Some newsmen had filled their bathtubs before the water stopped. They doled it out for a shave and a wash that even a kitten would regard as perfunctory...
...collection disputes. Many Ecuadorians hoped that Velasco's attempts to tighten tax policies and end private speculation in foreign exchange might help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls and to fill the jails with indiscriminate arrests. Among those seized was TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia, who was arrested without explanation in Quito and then expelled from the country after spending a night confined to a 6-ft. by 9-ft. cell in a Quito penitentiary...
Seeking the answer, the scientist set up an experiment in which he eagerly served as a guinea pig. After each daily shave with an electric razor, he meticulously collected and weighed the amount of hair that had been removed. He also devised a zero-to-five scale for rating each day's activities-including mental and physical exertion, degree of nervousness, amount of sleep and occurrence of intercourse...
...Shoot Straight. Mailer-Breslin was a ticket compounded of booze fulminate of mercury, and laughing gas It was too volatile to survive. There was also the problem of Mailer's vanity. Near the end of the campaign says Flaherty, Mailer encouraged some of his staff to shave off their beards as a gesture of loyalty, and curtly rejected scripts for spot radio announcements in favor of an abominable jingle from...
...with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave poem.") His gags-if not his harmonica-caught on, and before long he was a radio star; his biggest years on TV were the mid-'50s (Herb Shriner Time, 1951-52, and Two for the Money, 1952-56). Later his popularity dwindled, but he never lacked an audience for his country...