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...lodge where, in 1952, her mother became Queen Elizabeth II on the sudden death of King George VI. The first of the Queen's children to visit the spot and keep the traditional all-night vigil for game, Anne protested that she could not photograph a colony of wart hogs below: she was blocked by photographers waiting to photograph her. Brother Charles, who landed a 62-lb. perch in Kenya's Lake Rudolf before setting off on a four-day camel safari in the wild northeast, also had a complaint about the cameramen. "Watch it!" he snapped when...
...last week, when Antigua staged its parliamentary elections, the tune had changed. Outside the Green House, his state residence in St. Johns, Bird was often taunted by children who poked cruel fun at his wart-pocked face. Opponent George Herbert Walter, a former Birdman who established a rival political party and labor union four years ago, coined the slogan: "Spread the word, sweep out Bird." Walter, 32, charged that Antigua's prosperity was cruelly selective. He said that the hotels and refinery hired Antiguans for menial work but reserved the best jobs for whites, that the casino collected millions...
Whenever something acceptable opens up. the lines are long: 280 men recently took examinations for 20 police vacancies. Sometimes the Boeing label can actually hinder. "Saying that you've been in aerospace around here is like having a wart on your nose," says Lowe. To counter that, some 100 unemployed have come together in a group called Talent Plus Inc., with the aim of finding new jobs partly by helping each other to write resumes that stress as much nonaerospace background as possible. A few jobs have opened...
Indeed, doctors are not above using such folk remedies themselves. In New York, researchers found that the wart count among some schoolchildren declined dramatically after doctors painted the growths with a bright vegetable dye. Dr. Goldman has tried an even more mystical method. He asks suggestible children to send him a detailed tracing of the wart-covered hand or foot. Then he burns the diagram and tells the youngsters that their warts will disappear in a few weeks. They usually...
...Warts Cured. Hypnosis allegedly cures warts. So does suggestion. Barber reports that the wart count among some New York schoolchildren fell dramatically after their warts were painted with chemically inert dyes identified as effective medication. Barber also discounts feats of strength under hypnosis, such as the ability of a man to make his body so rigid that he can be stretched like a plank between two chairs. "Practically all normally awake persons can remain suspended between two chairs while supported only by the head and ankles," Barber says...