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Last Sunday afternoon a creaky, chrome-plated, bus stood shaking in front of the Sheraton-Plaza. Inside were 20 eager tourists, a fat, jolly, swarthy tourguide who wore wrap around sun-glasses, and an ernest, young busdriver who sat hunched possessively over his steering wheel. Tour No. 2 of the Gray Lines Sightseeing Bus Company entitled "Contemporary Education & Cultural Boston & Cambridge" was about to begin...
...NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (NBC, 11:30 p.m.-12 midnight). An evening wrap-up of the Indiana primary, with Frank McGee as anchorman in Indianapolis...
...That prissy wrap-up about see-through blouses "dulling the senses" [April 19] seems vaguely familiar. Hasn't that same broken record been grinding away ever since legs first emerged from the hobble skirt? In the time from flapper fringe to miniskirt, legs may indeed have lost their shock value, but a well-turned leg still turns heads. What short skirts have done for the leg man, see-through blouses may yet do for the more high-minded girl watcher...
...theatrical dazzle as he wooed savings accounts. He held art auctions and book fairs, gave away coffee and cake, loaded his sumptuous offices with endless tables of free gifts for new customers. When Washington stopped him from advertising such come-ons, Lytton responded by hiring luscious models to wrap gifts in a traffic-stopping display behind the windows of his Sunset Boulevard office...
...like an adventure in the bush country. When a straggling vine snags her hair net, she accuses it of assault. "A rampaging hanging plant chasing you around is no good," she says sternly, and starts clipping away with her shears. This leads into a lesson on containing aggressive philodendron: wrap the dangling stems around the base of the plant, puncture the skin and pin the stems down with hairpins so they will sprout anew. Her method for watering hanging plants without dribbling on the floor: drop a couple of ice cubes into...