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...college, have made thrift the corner stone of their lives. "I'm always looking to use something in a creative way," says Mrs. Butler, 57, who works as a school teacher's aide. "I never buy anything that I can make for myself." She has recycled melted wax into candles, wraps gifts in old newspapers and never buys on credit. Still, the Butlers have been unable to set aside funds for retirement. "We had hoped that we would travel after we retired," says Mrs. Butler, "but now I'm not so sure that we are going...
...London Wax Museum is located at 179 Tremont St. in Boston. Who says the Red Sox is the only culture you can get at Bean Town. This place has 38 different waxen scenes, and all of them should have been candles. No figurine--except for maybe Frankenstein's--looks like anybody in particular. Great fun for the whole family, especially if the family is stoned out of their minds...
...even as Nixon conferred, they wheeled the big jets into the hangars at Andrews Air Force Base to give them a fresh coat of turtle wax and burnish them for the trip this week to the Soviet Union, which will be bigger, more profound and yield more headlines that the workers in the White House will clip, measure and assay...
...exactly at eleven, as many servants as there are of gentlemen and ladies, come in with each of them two wax candles, and in procession we follow to the gallery at the head of the great staircase, and file off of different rooms. This is high life: but I would not have parted with my humble cottage at Milton for the sake...
...have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal was formed and then covered with thin sheets and threads of finely worked beeswax; this was mantled with clay and dried, then heated, so that the wax ran out of the mold and molten metal could be poured in to take its place...