Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Profound Hypocrisy." Johnson's boldest proposal was an eloquent plea for "a national policy against racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing." Said he: "Negro ghettos indict our cities North and South. As long as the color of a man's skin determines his choice of housing, no investment in the physical rebuilding of our cities will free the men and women living there." Noting that "Negro Americans comprise 22% of the enlisted men in our Army combat units in Viet Nam-and 22% of those who have lost their lives in battle there," the President...
...keeper, police found Sylvia's body with arms crossed over her breast. Even to hardened cops, the sight was stomach wrenching. Virtually no part of the girl's corpse was unmarked. Her fingernails had been broken upward; there were massive bruises on her temples; much of the skin on her face, chest, arms and legs had peeled from scalding water. Her lower lip had been bitten in two, presumably during her agony. The immediate cause of death was a blow on the skull. In all, Sylvia's body bore an estimated 150 burns, cuts, bruises and other...
...German Physicist Philipp Lenard wrote a paper describing how the splashing of falling water charges the surrounding air with electricity. Recently, Welsh-born Physicist Edward Pierce decided to check out Lenard's theory that each waterdrop's skin of negative ions is stripped off and discharged into the atmosphere as the drop breaks up when it hits a surface. At first, Pierce haunted waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. Suddenly he realized that "many of Lenard's experiments could be performed in a bathroom, and have indeed been constantly operating in American bathrooms...
...blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...
Diet & Stress. In treating acne, Dr. Fisher prescribes antibiotics to keep down the bacteria, and drains the pustules. He condemns the acne victim's bathroom ritual of pimple-squeezing as dangerous and likely to spread the infection. Dr. Fisher prescribes drying lotions to reduce the skin's oiliness, and he preaches the importance of soap-and-water cleanliness, plus germicides...