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...threshold of the '20s and the new era of uncorseted freedom for women. The simple clothes Coco wanted to make were exactly what women were waiting for. She introduced the tricot sailor frock, the turtleneck sweater and the pullover, shortened skirts and heels for comfort, flattened chests to create a lithe, boyish look...
...sale by Minneapolis' Reese Metal Weatherstrip Co. Easily fitted onto wooden doors, the device has a torsion spring that automatically retracts a felt-edged aluminum bar when the door opens, allowing the door to swing freely over carpets or rugs, then forces the bar snugly against the threshold when it closes. Price: $2.75 to $3.45, depending on size and color...
...What about the future?" asked President Eisenhower in his televised report to the nation. Widespread in the U.S. was a sense of a future, a sense of changes astir. Just beyond the threshold of a new decade, the nation looked ahead to a presidential election. And it seemed unmis- takably clear that the events of the recent past, climaxing in the summit blowup, had brought important changes, that the future would be considerably different from the past, and not necessarily worse...
...growing. U.S. Steel is about to set up a fulltime program, "as a natural step in the development of a medical program," and Bell Telephone Co. of Canada is considering one. Says Dr. Graham Taylor, consulting psychiatrist for two Montreal firms: "Industrial psychiatry is at the threshold of a stage of expansion and development...
...ugly and penetrating, louder inside a house than out side, and loudest of all at night and on weekends. The hum's pitch never varies, and it seems impossible ever to get "near er" to the sound. "For the majority," reports Hyams, "the hum is just below the threshold of audibility, but for those who can hear it, refined torture." By now, Hyams was himself hearing it on occasion. He took the matter up with the county council, but was brushed off. A local M.P. raised the question in the House of Commons, but got only the stony reply...