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McCarthy: Did you order these smear charges prepared, strike the word smear? Secretary Stevens laughed...
GILLETTE'S TONI division, which started the home-permanent fad, is expanding into cosmetics. First product will be a smear-proof lipstick called "Viv," which Toni will launch with a $5,000,000 ad campaign. Other products to follow: cleansing cream and hand lotion...
...only hear evidence about the conference that is damaging to Mr. Cohn, Mr. Carr and myself. Suddenly, halfway through this, we are not going to get the complete story." The fact of the Administration conference, said McCarthy, cast new doubt on who was really behind the "issuance of the smear that has held my committee up for weeks and has allowed Communists to continue in defense plants, handling secret documents, with a razor at the throat of the American people." Because of the President's order, McCarthy added ominously, he had "no way of getting at the truth...
Lipstick on the Pillow. In 1947 a woman in a midtown hotel room appeared to have died in her sleep about 24 hours earlier. Dr. Milton Helpern, deputy chief examiner, noted small hemorrhages on the eyeballs, suggesting suffocation. But she was lying face up. Then he saw that a smear on the pillow matched the lipstick she was wearing. That clinched his suspicion. Detectives tracked down her estranged husband, and he confessed having strangled his wife. If the body had been moved, Dr. Helpern would have missed the telltale clue...
...home repair provision, Title I, although easily as "dirty" as Section 608, is still in effect. Linked together, they incriminate both administrations. On this count, the political effects seem to cancel out. And it must have been obvious that as a smear, the FHA probe would certainly backfire...