Word: warts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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...
...Wart Removal. A Rio face-lift costs $500 to $1,600, about 20% less for the doctor and 50% less for the hospital than it does in the U.S. Traveling expenses raise total costs for Americans to about what they would pay at home, but the pleasures of a trip to Rio (and the advantage of secrecy) give Brazil a definite edge. "One woman came here from Beverly Hills to have a wart removed," says Pitanguy, "simply because she likes to travel...