Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parlayed a modest talent for figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker entered the British market. In twelve years, Mat chan 1) helped wash away the prewar Victorian notion that lipstick was not for English ladies, and 2) became the company's European general manager...
...brought into the outpost by helicopter to a landing zone grimly known as "Death Valley," or over the unpaved road from Cam Lo. Everything rots or mildews. The Marines at Con Thien live on C rations. Because water is scarce, they shave only every other day and can seldom wash...
...Patroness Rebekah Harkness, but was dropped when she decided to form her own company (TIME, April 2, 1965). Today Joffrey and his dancers are the resident company at City Center, but they still hit the road, and may find a permanent summer slot at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash...
...kill somebody on the ground." Still, accidents happen, particularly in the hairy sport of pylon racing. While cutting a tight turn around a 55-ft.-high pylon, a plane may pull up to six G.s even as it is being subjected to severe turbulence from the prop wash of competitors. The results can be catastrophic. While testing his homemade racer at Fort Worth last May, Georgia's Nick Jones was tooling along merrily-when a wing fell off. Jones was lucky: he parachuted to safety. The accident did not prevent him from borrowing another home-built to race...
...appeal of their beat, and I rather liked their humor. I sensed something big-if it could be at once harnessed and at the same time left untamed." That was Brian Epstein's life work: organizing the unruly Merseyside boys, adding some professional polish, and making them wash (but not cut) their hair regularly. When they finally clicked after months of relentless salesmanship at London record companies, Epstein felt fulfilled. "My own sense of inferiority," he said, "evaporated with the Beatles...