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...interesting specimen because of the strikingly French robe effect attained by the use of shirring, folds, and trains. The mannequins sporting low necklines are invariably placed in positions in which the dip cannot be seen. Their elaborate coiffures make one wonder how women of the past managed without hair spray...
...Glue. First step in the delicate process of retrieving the papyrus intact is to spray the mummy with hot diluted hydrochloric acid. In about ten minutes most of the plaster dissolves, and the wad of papyrus that is left is laid on a wire tray over a tank of steaming water. It poaches there for a while, gradually softening as the papyrologists encourage the process and separate the stuff with delicate tweezings...
...Grant had noted, as has many another TV sports fan, that athletic trainers seem to get good results with a cooling ethyl chloride spray. And he knew about applying hot-water bottles filled with ice cubes. But if a little cold is good, Dr. Grant reasoned, deeper chilling might somehow ease the pain and help the accident patient get his muscles and joints working sooner. Dr. Grant was certain of one thing at least: the longer a muscle or joint is immobilized by pain, the harder it is to get it working again...
...Brigadier General Tran Tu Oai, an articulate officer whom Nhu sidetracked into the post of director of the malaria eradication program. "I'm the only general in the army," said Tran, "who is armed with a spray gun." He is now chief of psychological warfare...
BILLY AL BENGSTON, 29, an ardent affluent-society motorcyclist (he owns four), goes in for concentric emblems, usually centered on a symbol such as a sergeant's stripes. Bengston sometimes uses an auto-body painter's spray gun to lay on glossy hot-rodder colors. "I use a lot of the concepts used in motorcycles," he says. "It's a kind of companionship I can understand...