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...Pocahontas. F.D.R. waved his cigarette holder, Churchill chomped his cigar, and some 1,200 assorted Washingtonians stared at them and chattered at each other to raise money for the American Newspaper Women's Club and to celebrate the opening of the capital's new National Historical Wax Museum...
...European assignment as a U.S. information officer, Dennis decided that a less gory and more educational waxworks might well be popular with tourists in the nation's capital. He was so right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn. In July a sixth will open near Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, for which a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is being constructed as part of a series of "great scenes from world history...
...Right Pocks. In this new wave of wax museums, the figures are not really made of wax but of a plastic called vinyl plestisol, which, in addition to being fireproof, does not have the glossy sheen that tends to make wax figures look like wax figures. In charge of creating them is Earl Dorfman, 48, who used to do department-store window displays...
...have to wax eloquent or be a rah-rah" to recruit at Harvard (and a few other schools, including Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford), Delano insisted. "A greater degree of self-awareness" accounts for an acceptance average at these schools which is about twice as high as that of the nation as a whole, he said...
...These sugar mills produce a good deal more than sugar-one fact that gives some hope for ending the glut. Bagasse, the residue after cane is squeezed, can be converted into hardboard and tile. Sugar cane also provides a base for paper, plastics, synthetic rubber, toothpaste, fingernail polish, floor wax, toys, even explosives...