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Wine as beauty regimen? Aeronautically refrigerated face cream? These are not ideas you would expect to come out of a Procter & Gamble or L'Oréal, no matter how many millions of dollars such conglomerates invest in research. But for smaller brands?many of which are hot targets???the more offbeat the idea, the better. Mathilde Thomas, co-founder of the French vinotherapy brand Caudalie, feels that smaller brands can take risks, ultimately, and that's what keeps the consumer interested...
Once brought under the Mob's umbrella, a business almost always ceases to operate legitimately. If it is a restaurant ?favorite targets???or a nightclub, it buys coal or oil from one LCN affiliate, rents linen from another, ships garbage out through still another. Its entertainers, parking-lot attendants and even its hat check girls must always be approved by the Mob?and sometimes they must kick back part of what they take in. When the gangsters were big in Las Vegas, they sometimes used skimmed cash to supplement the fees paid to featured performers. The under-the-table...
...clocks above Whitman, and most pinked ineffectually into the four-foot-high wall in front of him, kicking up puffs of dust. Ducking below the wall, Whitman began using narrow drainage slits in the wall as gunports. He proved almost impossible to hit, but he kept finding targets???to the north, where he wounded two students on their way to the Biology Building; to the east, where he nicked a girl sitting at a window in the Business Economics Building; but particularly to the south, where the mall looked like a no man's land strewn with bodies that could...
Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets???have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing...
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