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...hands-and so far he is sitting. South Carolina's fledgling Republicans are dreamily hoping for a Nixon victory because of South Carolina's wide respect for conservative Republican Barry Goldwater, who will stump the state for Nixon. Mississippi, which once had a lethargic "black and tan" Republican organization, now has an energetic white party and big hopes; G.O.P. prospects are better in Mississippi than ever before-but not yet good enough...
...side, and when she was stood upright again, the Montana secretary of state-an avowed enemy of Anaconda Copper-took the occasion to have her copper coating changed to aluminum. This caused quite a bit of talk for a while, until politically powerful Anaconda paid for having her tan restored...
While politics is always the trunk line, his humor ranges everywhere. Crazes craze him. His masterpiece on hi-fi ends with a family living in their garage and using the house as a speaker. When he read that people were daubing themselves with instant skin tan, he moaned: "If you can't believe in the sun, what can you believe in?" Psychoanalytic clichés are seldom spared. Once, says Sahl, a bank robber slipped the teller a note saying: "Give me your money and act normal." The teller replied: "First you must define your terms. After all, what...
...short, happy life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...
Regimen's Andre is currently riding the crest of another new fad of his own creation : Man-Tan, a colorless lotion costing $3 for a four-ounce bottle that by means of a chemical reaction on skin changes the color to a yellow or a reddish brown, withstands repeated washing. Andre worked for years on a Man-Tan formula, writing herb gardens all over the world for ideas. He claims he finally found the answer in a 1920s medical journal describing experiments with dihydroxyacetone, a chemical that doctors once used in the treatment of diabetes. The article noted that...