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...might rain a wee bit tomorrow, but then again it may only shower. Winds seem to be blowing up from Dixie...
Self-Service Beauty. Manhattan working girls can now freshen up at the "Pamper House," near Rockefeller Center, before going on a date. For $1 a year, 25? a visit and dimes in slot machines, a tired secretary can take a shower, wash and curl her hair, manicure her nails, look at television...
...Harvard's Astronomer Donald H. Menzel, the sun revolves like a tremendous lawn sprinkler. From its seething corona dense clouds of hydrogen squirt out at speeds up to 600 miles a second. Every so often one of those clouds hits the earth and bathes the planet in a shower of solar gas. But earthlings are protected by bumpers of magnetic force-invisible bars that stretch from pole to pole...
Students were alarmed when a shower of sparks erupted from the crucible's top, but Rochow calmly knocked the plug out of the bottom with a long rod and the molten steel flowed into a trough...
...long thought to be caused in salt water by pollution or jellyfish stings, has been traced to the common mud snail. The snail's tiny larvae attack swimmers in calm waters and cause an itchy rash. Best way to outwit them: avoid still waters, keep splashing, take a shower afterwards...