Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Artists' Gun Fever, a lissome Indian squaw (Actress Jana Davi) forsakes buckskin for buff skin to scamper winningly up a mossy hillside-but only in happier hunting grounds than...
...into this field any more." For the Smithsonian-which normally employs six taxidermists-and for other U.S. museums there is good news: an inexpensive, do-it-yourself process that may make the taxidermist's knife and needle as obso lete as a black snake's cast-off skin...
...first Suda was not too optimistic about the sales of his doll. Today, with a raging boom on his hands, he says: "The whole thing is crazy." But Japanese intellectuals, who can be pretty crazy themselves, have been quick to discover social significance in the dakkochan's black skin. Citing the growing popularity of Negro jazz. Artist Setsu Nagasawa argues that "a Negro culture wave seems to be sweeping Japanese youth." Novelist Tensei Kawano, who has featured Negroes in four books, asserts: "We of the younger generation are outcasts from politics and society. In a way we are like...
...eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent through the earth's atmosphere. The capsule, with its canine passengers, was ejected automatically, floated down separately. Both satellite and capsule, said the Russians, landed astonishingly close-within 6.2 miles-to a pre-selected (but still secret) target area. Soviet physiologists rushed...
Love That Lucky. Lasker responded with singular skill to the fierce competition of advertising. When the J. Walter Thompson Agency recommended Woodbury's soap for "The Skin You Love to Touch," Lasker fired back, on Palmolive's behalf, with "That School Girl Complexion." Working in double harness with the eccentric George Washington Hill, president of American Tobacco, Lasker converted Lucky Strikes from a chewing tobacco into the nation's leading cigarette. Cannily observing that women might be persuaded that smoking was not only decent but glamorous, Lasker assaulted the feminine market with a series of glowing testimonials...