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...Turner happily, "you have to raise your own tomatoes in January-as well as have plenty of orchids." But there is much more to it than green-thumb-upmanship. There is the satisfaction of growing or propagating plants for the outdoor garden instead of buying them, of cutting a spray of forsythia in midwinter and "forcing" it into a golden harbinger of spring, of watching a child's pride in his own waist-high plantation, and, not least, of dropping into a city florist's from time to time to check up on the prices. For less than...
...ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from 6:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.)--along with two steel table bench combinations. No radios allowed, no sleeping in the day room...
...simplest is to raise the humidity in the room. But even in the era of built-in air condition ing, this is more easily said than done. Even if it can be done, excessive humidity results in moisture condensing on the windows in cold weather. The second is to spray antistatic chemicals on the rug. But the available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into the warp and woof...
...Mucomyst spray is no cure, but it appears to be less irritating than previous aerosols. While its effects may be most dramatic in cystic fibrosis, the University of Mississippi's Dr. Watts R. Webb reports that the drug seems to be equally useful in other diseases in which mucus blocks breathing...
Green for Ruddy, Blue for Sallow. The trend became obvious two years ago, when Elizabeth Arden noticed a sudden sales increase on its Arden for Men line (which includes face cream and face mask, hair spray, brilliantine, three kinds of scent and two shades of powder). Sales doubled in 1962 and are running about 100% higher this year. Revlon and Lanvin have followed Elizabeth Arden into the masculine market; Clairol may soon join the parade...