Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, she added, "it also looks a bit like the southeastern coast of the United States-you know, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia." What technique had she employed to achieve such double-barreled results? "Well," she said modestly, "I started in the upper left-hand corner and just painted down and across." Why? "Because that way the paint doesn't smudge...
Died. Use Koch, 61, "bitch of Buchenwald," wife of the Nazi extermination camp's commandant, who was just as bestial as the men around her; by her own hand (hanging); in Aichach women's prison, Upper Bavaria, where she was serving a life sentence...
...Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine about the improvisation and later improvements. The surfboard is made from two pieces of plywood hinged together and covered with foam rubber. The bedsore patient lies on it face down, with his legs at an angle of about 20° from the vertical, and the upper part of his body only 25° to 35° from the horizontal. In this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board to the point where he can work...
...pose as social workers, saleswomen, poll takers or long-lost relatives. They arrange interviews in law offices, public libraries, department stores and cocktail lounges. "VD certainly shows no class prejudice," says one nurse-detective. "I go to a fair share of houses with maids and chauffeurs. Parents in the upper and middle classes get hysterical when I tell them that one of them, or their child, has been named as a contact. And there's a double standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that a daughter may be infected, but can't hide something like jubilance...
...Bravo! TIME has rewarded the councils of moderation with badly needed publicity. But as a Negro I am still convinced that white people do not understand the lines of cleavage among us. Whitney Young and others like him represent the upper crust. They claim to speak for their oppressed brothers in the ghetto but cannot even speak to them. Those of us who live in the ghetto are doomed to name our own leaders and to select our own representatives...