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...controversy into one of the several abrasive quips he hurled at Johnson during the week. He mentioned some of the experts he had proposed for the commission, then added that "President Johnson, in his inimitable style, wanted to appoint General Westmoreland, John Wayne and Martha Raye." Another Kennedy throwaway: he knows he has a chance to win-George Hamilton asked for his daughter's telephone number...
...century elegance, topped off with such hats as dreams are made of, she struts and swaggers new pizazz into the undistinguished material that Carol Channing, Betty Grable, Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers have done so well by. The Bailey way with a wink or a wiggle or a throwaway line is pure pleasure, and the rich, round raunchy Bailey voice can wrap up and deliver anything singable...
...year. George Wasserberger, 38, one of four U.S. entrepreneurs who took over 122-year-old Mark Cross in 1962, attributes its success to uncompromising quality. "We have never sacrificed lasting fashion for fad," he says. His philosophy is expressed in a recent Mark Cross ad: "It's a throwaway society, man. Break it. Chuck it. Replace it. Do you believe that? Mark Cross...
Blood Through Bs. Unlike the Russian inventions, in which staples must be loaded one by one with tweezers, U.S. Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze...
...other hand, there are developments, Scorpion, partly supported by Adams House, broke print for the first time with an interesting issue--all the more so because its editors seem to have solved their problems of selection by including everything they could find. The infrequent throwaway of an undergraduate publishing cartel is reputedly paying for undergraduate fiction--something nobody else can afford to do. And then there's the Island, the first fruit of an extraordinarily literary freshman class...