Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political upset two years ago when everybody's 1941 All-America guard from Harvard, Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, was elected Governor of Massachusetts by a skin-thin margin over Republican Incumbent John Volpe. But there he was-tall, seedily handsome, fumbling through his prepared speeches as if he had just caught a linebacker's elbow between the eyes...
...something wrong, though. The harsh truth is that no one-not even Joe Levine or the greatest possible Volta-could turn Carroll Baker into the luscious figurehead of sex that she is advertised to be. She is simply not the type. In The Carpetbaggers, she wears all sorts of skin-fitting slacks and radioactive underclothes, but she always looks like a suburban mother who is not quite well. The suggestion of Mann Act joy that she achieved in Baby Doll has been rinsed away. Capping her head with platinum has cheapened but not ripened...
...pouring in ad money disproportionately to sales until a new product gets to the point, as a P. & G. executive puts it, where "it brings home the duck to dinner." The success of this formula makes P. & G. confident that the unfamiliar products it is test-marketing today-Velvet Skin soap, Top Job liquid cleanser and The Max blue detergent tablet-will also become household words tomorrow, thanks to the power of advertising...
...will mark Lady Bird Johnson's reign in the White House. At 51, she is cast more in the pleasant image of a neat, busy suburban clubwoman than in the queenly mold of a jet-set Continental beauty. She is intelligent, superbly poised and incredibly self-disciplined. Her skin is clear and abloom, and she has the figure of a teen-ager (5 ft. 4 in., 114 lbs.), but she is no glamor girl. Her nose is a bit too long,.her mouth a bit too wide, her ankles a bit less than trim, and she is not outstanding...
After six weeks as Premier of the Congo, Moise Tshombe was hanging on by the skin of his big white teeth...