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...also spurred the sport. Today's bike (which can cost up to $150 for a fancy French import) is lightweight, comes with ten or more gears, which take most of the effort out of climbing hills, and easily removable wheels that allow the bike to fit into the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Forgotten Outdoorsmen | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...students also discovered, however, that they could dispense with all operators, inward and otherwise, on calls with in the United States. They merely had to beep a tone of the correct frequency into the telephone transmitter after dialing an appropriate code to connect them with a long distance trunk line...

Author: By Charles W. Bevard, | Title: Five Students Psych Bell System, Place Free Long Distance Calls | 5/31/1966 | See Source »

...iambic trimeter is charming, in a wistful, childish way-like something from the bottom of a young Emily Dickinson's trunk. In this case, the poetess is Jacqueline Kennedy, whose two quatrains, titled Dream, are published in the June McCall's. She wrote them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1966 | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Miss Herter was in Madrid "to mail her trunk home and say good-bye to some friendsj" after finishing the term at Granada, according to her mother. She has since left for Lisbon and the beginning of a tour of Europe before returning to Cambridge in June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Is Among Americans Hurt In Spanish Riot | 5/4/1966 | See Source »

Progesterone breaks down into androgens, Dr. Fisher pointed out, and these stimulate the production of sebum, the waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of the upper trunk and head. These myriad, tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dermatology: Acne, Hormones & Milk | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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