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...building boom had passed its peak, though they still looked for plenty of business. Construction statistics had not started to decline; housing starts this year were still running ahead of 1951. But from the tales the realtors swapped, the sales of new houses across the country were softer than at any time since the war. Good houses still sold well, although buyers asked more questions, demanded more concessions. Depending on the region, realtors told of sales lagging 5% to 15% behind last year...
Permanents are softer and infinitely adaptable with the aid of hair-jewels, fancy ribbons, and stand-for-no-nonsense brushes. Hair is often short, but extremely becoming things are being done to manes and mops--much more sophisticated, often, than a short curly cut. Above all, they show the earrings, which can be enormous structures covering the entire shell of the ear or great suspensions of rhinestones like magnified snowflakes. Or pearls...
...adding others. During the past few months, the U.S. Army has replaced its inconspicuous jeeps with a fleet of 800 sleek, wide-bodied, olive-drab sedans, which use up more parking space in Tokyo's already jampacked streets, while apparently serving no more useful purpose than a softer ride for occupation brass...
...Iran not only lacks capital to pay this, but probably will not even be able to raise the $60 million needed annually for the company's operations. Mossadeq will not compromise on anything he considers a basic issue, but even his attitude last week seemed just a shade softer...
...noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the face of. death, but without the softer virtues of pity and compassion. They treat their women, Buliard concluded, as mere objects of comfort, and they occasionally kill rivals to get them. Yet they are capable of a certain philosophical appreciation of the value and transitoriness of life. Buliard is struck by a death song that begins...