Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shipped or Stored? After U Thant returned to New York, the U.S. resumed its naval blockade of Cuba. Fresh from a two-day respite in Puerto Rico, where he engaged in his favorite sport of skin-diving, Vice Admiral Alfred G. Ward went back to sea to command Task Force 136. Once again, low-flying jet reconnaissance planes screeched over Cuba to photograph the state of the Soviet nuclear missiles...
...hear her tell it, Italian-born Cora Galenti had found the Fountain of Youth. She even gave the name to her Sunset Boulevard salon. There and at her lavish Hollywood home she treated thousands of women and many men. When they went in, the skin on their aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made...
...painless, but a beauty shop operator from Columbus testified: "She put some liquid on my face, and it was just like liquid fire." Though no one testified to actual injury from Cora's treatment, doctors said in court that since it peels off the top layer of skin by a slow burn, the phenol formula would definitely do damage; it might also injure the kidneys...
Beneath Bronze Skin. This unfashionable "literary" approach to art, as well as an almost compulsive shyness about exhibiting, has kept Underwood out of the public notice. But he has done his share to set the stage for modern British sculpture. At one time he ran a small drawing school, which a promising sculptor named Henry Moore attended. Moore still credits Underwood with having done more for him than any earlier teacher, and the two men are often compared and contrasted by British critics...
Charles Grodin seems to get his skin, as well as his clothes, at Brooks Bros. Director Peter Glenville propels the play toward its one compelling conclusion: that life is a fatal adventure...