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COSMETIC MAKERS will have to get a safety clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for their products before they can sell them, under legislation urged by Health Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. FDA recently seized 400,000 Hazel Bishop eyebrow pencils that FDA said contained irritating coal-tar colors...
...thought that the entire substance caused cancer) is also present in auto fumes, where it seems to block cancer-causing substances more effectively-despite the fact that auto exhausts contain 60 times more of the cancer-causing agents. Wynder warned that the presence of the waxlike chemical in tobacco tar does not prevent lung cancer, hopes that eventually enough of the chemical can be added to cigarettes to eliminate the need for filters...
...boys in On the Town are sailors in New York for a twenty-four hour leave, and the girl is Miss Turnstiles for the month. One tar wants to date the subway queen after seeing her picture on a poster, and the show takes off from there...
...Tar & Feathers. For years the labor unions have tried in vain to organize farm workers. In the '30s, such efforts in the Imperial Valley often resulted in the organizers being beaten, tarred, and feathered. But the A.W.O.C. has learned that it has powerful allies in laws, treaties and the highly perishable nature of valley crops. Of the 10,000 lettuce workers, more than 7,000 are braceros-Mexicans contracted to valley farmers for the season. By striking effectively, the A.W.O.C. could force the U.S. Labor Department, under terms of an agreement with Mexico, to order the withdrawal...
...burst. In the slum suburbs of Belcourt and Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...