Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercilessly destroy every hotbed of revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish, exotic birds, flowers, antiques, elaborate coffins, signs with gilded instead of red lettering, and jewelry...
...bill of his own works, and Sir Ralph Richardson will be seen either in Shaw's You Never Can Tell, Sheridan's The Rivals, or both. Additional foreign works include the 1966 London critics' prize-winning The Killing of Sister George, the tale of a disturbed soap-opera star with an unsavory private life; The Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel (who wrote Philadelphia, Here I Come!), about a Bowery barmaid's return to her native Ireland; and Help Stamp Out Marriage!, by Billy Liar Authors Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall...
Lunar Orbiter 1 last week became the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the moon-and the first orbiter ever to transmit lunar photographs back to earth, where Americans could see them live on TV amid their afternoon soap operas...
...companies are Procter & Gamble Ltd. and Lever Brothers & Associates Ltd., both subsidiaries of corporations-one U.S.-based and the other an Anglo-Dutch combine-that are at each other's throats around the world. Between them, they control 90% of Britain's $192 million-a-year soap and detergent business. It was presumably for this reason that for many months the government's seven-member Monopolies Commission investigated the suds situation. The commission finally conceded that neither P. & G.'s 46% share of the market (worth $90 million in sales) nor Lever...
...Frankly Ludicrous." Understandably, the commission report stirred up dissent. Stocks of TV companies, whose revenues depend heavily on soap ads, plunged on the London exchange. Said Lever Chairman Edward Brough, 48; "Exercising her choice in a free market, the British housewife has struck a good balance between the high cost of unlimited choice and the low cost of no choice at all." P. & G. pointed out that detergent prices have gone up only 8% in the last seven years, as against 18% for the whole retail price index. Said London's weekly Observer: "The TV commercials are sickening...