Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spurious Marxism." In characteristic fashion, Mayor La Pira was worried by a layoff at a Florence toilet-goods factory that would put 72 people out of work. La Pira sent off telegrams to Rome demanding government action to save their jobs. When he was publicly criticized for doing so, La Pira replied hotly that the times call for "essentially an economy of state intervention...
...Twelfth Street Rag, the Beer Barrel Polka, some fast, weak boogie-woogie, and his TV theme song, I Don't Care (which he dedicated to his critics). Between numbers he casually dropped the names of God, President Eisenhower, Paderewski and some of his 185 TV sponsors (notably a toilet-paper manufacturer). He also introduced Mom, who was proudly sitting in a spotlighted box, wearing mink and orchids...
...Britain has poured billions into African development. Spread among so many who need so much, it sparked no great boom, yet in copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, one town grew so fast that its public-health officials were temporarily officed in a disused public lavatory, with boards nailed over the toilet seats to provide desks and chairs. Across the continent, Gold Coast and Nigeria are becoming useful dollar earners and an important British market...
...text, Jubilee can equally well explain the dogma of the Assumption, illustrate the life and work of modern Catholic artists like the late Eric Gill, discuss historical figures like the Venerable Bede, or give its readers a handy briefing (by a Catholic psychiatrist) on the dangers of too-severe toilet training for children...
...Most acne sufferers waste their time and money looking for magical skin nostrums. The University of Virginia's Dr. Clayton E. Wheeler, writing in the current G.P., the magazine of the American Academy of General Practice, offers simpier advice: use ordinary toilet soap. Only in severe cases of inflammatory skin disease is a doctor's prescription necessary. People bothered with any sort of acne, however, should avoid letting furs and woolens come in contact with the skin and should keep away from oils and greases. Since acne yields slowly, Wheeler also warns that the treatment must be persistent...