Word: suntans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begun to stretch out like so many sausages on a griddle-all for the sake of a handsome, "healthy" tan. This rite of summer is warming, relaxing and so socially desirable that few sun worshipers heed the constant words of caution from doctors. Despite its appearance of health, a suntan apparently has little physical value; too much sun over a long period of time may permanently damage the skin...
Greasy Red Stuff. As evidence that most people are more than willing to risk sunburn's dangers, store shelves are crammed with dozens of suntan lotions and creams. They prevent sunburn only to the extent that they block out burning ultraviolet rays from the sun, and they allow true tanning only to the extent that they let those same ultraviolet rays through. Perhaps the most effective sun-screening agent of all is a dark red veterinary petroleum jelly, used during World War II for life-raft survival. Trouble is, the stuff is indeed red (although it loses its color...
...gratuitous delights that a child finds in toys or picture books. Fyodor, like most young men who want to make their name and make love in the same breath, is a bit of a fool. In one wonderful scene his clothes are stolen as he polishes his poetry and suntan in a Berlin park. He would as gladly split a bottle as a hair...
...that way. The Rhodesian Front is expected to wind up with 35 seats, to 29 for the U.F.P. Chosen to succeed Whitehead as Prime Minister was Front President Winston Field, 58, an English-born tobacco and cattle farmer who looks like Howard Hughes with a suntan...
Officially, the two-week visit was billed as a vacation, but it was obvious, from the big delegation of Yugoslav economic and political experts who accompanied the boss that Tito had more in mind than a suntan at Sochi. Among the subjects: more aid, more trade. Forgotten for the time being: the bitter, angry recriminations of the past...