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Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in Hawthorne, Calif., a bleak beach suburb of Los Angeles, and sweeping out a laundromat to earn enough money to buy wax for his surfboard and Budweiser for himself. He had just been suspended from Hawthorne High School for starting a bloody free-for-all during a physical education class and getting drunk that night at a basketball game. After his suspension, he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches south of Los Angeles...
...Moscow meeting on the 70th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin. In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed out of the meeting and returned with four militiamen to arrest the bard, but backed off when the crowd of young poetry lovers staged a stormy protest of their...
Everywhere, people worked out ways to solve the problem, but in few places more ingeniously than among the men who handle one of Time Inc.'s newest processes. In the Photo Department-where type is set on film and assembled into pages with wax as an adhesive-the photocomposition men poured the warm wax into coffee tins and cups and then implanted pieces of string for wicks. Presto: candles! What will those men of advanced technology think of next...
...good days and his bad days," says an old Moscow hand. "I'm convinced they take him out now and then and do something to him. He looks pretty plastic in places." Indeed, some Kremlinologists believe that the figure in the tomb is not Lenin but a wax facsimile, and to the casual eye the face and hands look very much like old wax into which someone has inserted hair. Then again, there are very few 41-year-old corpses available for comparison. Nonetheless, dummy or mummy, Moscow's Joyboys will be busy for the next couple...
Journey to Disneyland. Many of the most popular displays will be used elsewhere by their owners. Though wreckers will get the Johnson's Wax pavilion, the company intends to continue showing its splendid film, To Be Alive, perhaps at its Racine headquarters. Walt Disney will take back his electronic, talking Abe Lincoln from the Illinois pavilion, his moving cavemen from Ford, and his thousands of gay puppets from Pepsi-Cola's lively "Small World"; all will probably appear in Disneyland.' Though the Fair's wax museum has optioned its four mop-topped Beatles to a Cleveland...