Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want very much to know how you read TIME. Front to back? Back to front? Cover to cover? And any other comments on your enjoyment of TIME will be most welcome (but in non-Swifty terms, please). "There's more than one way to skin a cat," says TIME'S reader research department-categorically...
Aside from a feeling of social wellbeing, the only proven beneficial effect of sunning is the formation of vitamin D-something already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas...
...This rite of summer is warming, relaxing and so socially desirable that few sun worshipers heed the constant words of caution from doctors. Despite its appearance of health, a suntan apparently has little physical value; too much sun over a long period of time may permanently damage the skin...
Overexposure. Tanning is actually the skin's way of protecting itself. In a reaction to the sun's rays, the skin thickens and dark pigment moves to the surface from underlying layers to help absorb later radiation. Dark-skinned persons have a larger supply of such protective pigmentation at the surface and can take considerably more sun without burning. Redheads, blondes and fair-skinned persons run the greatest risk...
...American Medical Association committee on cosmetics: "There is undeniable evidence that the effects of the sun are cumulative and at some point irreversible. The evidence is clear that chronic exposure to sunlight can be one of the major factors in the production of precancerous and cancerous conditions of the skin...