Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dore Schary's film version of his Broadway success develops Franklin Roosevelt's ordeal by polio into a superior drama that is also a superb soap opera-and one of the year's shrewder pieces of political propaganda. Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson make wonderful theater out of Franklin and Eleanor...
...contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies and a soap factory...
Cutting the Knot. A year ago, after serving six months as Deputy Defense Secretary, Gates succeeded Soap Salesman Neil H. McElroy in the top defense post. During his one year, Gates achieved more service unification-notably in research, purchasing and communications-than his last two predecessors achieved in seven years. Gates also cut through a knotty administrative problem that had baffled his predecessors: coordination between the Secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara's edge, where by day nomadic cattle herders bow to Mecca and muffle their faces against the sun and grit-filled harmattan winds with robes...
...chatty paragraph that followed, Sylvia admitted a feminine partiality for expensive face creams ("I won't confess to myself, much less to you, what I was spending"), but said she had given them up when a skin specialist assured her that nothing, but nothing, beats common soap. This little white lie (in private fact, she still dabs on assorted costly ointments, pays 75? a cake for Elizabeth Arden soap) had its purpose. It was Sylvia's way of backing into a survey of the billion-dollar cosmetic industry so stuporously dull that few readers would have bothered...