Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department could not find a nation that would take him), U.S. Mafia Mogul Carlos Marcello walked into the New Orleans office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was peremptorily handcuffed and hustled to the airport, was Guatemala-bound before he could phone his wife or pick up a toothbrush. Last week, while the American Civil Liberties Union attacked the "to talitarian tactics" of the Immigration agents, the Internal Revenue Service slapped a $835,000 tax lien on the squat mobster, charged him with leaving the country without a permit...
...British army psychiatrist now on the staff of Newcastle General Hospital. Writing in the Journal of Mental Science, he tells of his mental health study of 400 mustachioed applicants for officer training. He divided up the candidates by type of mustache: trimmed (short hairs over entire upper lip), bushy, toothbrush, hairline and divided. For trimmed, bushy, hairline and divided types, the "pass" rate was an average 23%-about the same as clean-shaven men. By astonishing contrast, not a single man with a toothbrush mustache passed. Incredulous, Peberdy persuaded a fellow psychiatrist to run a similar test at another British...
Precise to a Fault. Combing the boards' appraisals, Peberdy found a consistent pattern among the toothbrushed men: the boards in general ruled them to be "too limited in imagination, too little appreciative of the views of others, [liable to] create rather than disperse interpersonal tensions. Like their mustaches, so tended these men: faintly rebellious, energetic but prickly, precise to a fault, disciplining to near ruthlessness and disciplined to near self-mutilation." Good Soldier Peberdy reassuringly hastened to add that in the selection of officer candidates "the cut of a man's mustache could of course never...
...crew climbs aboard with its frozen TV lunches, its printed forms (27 of them have to be filled in during and after the flight), and 100 Ibs. or so of survival gear apiece. One pilot, Major Adelbert Gionet, a SAC plane commander for eleven years, carries toothbrush and mouthwash along, as well as a surgical needle and catgut ("If I ever rip any of me, I want to be able to put myself together"), and a flask of whisky. They all carry knives, since a knife has proved to be the most durable and versatile survival weapon...
Come down to the CRIMSON with your Bursar's Card stamped C and pick up your pencil sharpener for news, toothbrush for ed (to get the very poor taste out of editorial mouths), barbells for photo, and book on hypnosis for advertising, at 7:30 p.m. tonight or tomorrow night...