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Disappointed Bobby-Soxers. Eight hours later, the Secretary was up and around, jotting down the statement he planned to make at Bonn's Wahn Airport. He shaved with a safety razor, an old-fashioned brush and lather. While he breakfasted on orange juice, boiled eggs and coffee, his secretary typed out the statement. When the pilot reported the ground temperature, Dulles chose a suitable ensemble (blue double-breasted suit, Homburg), being careful, as he dressed, to tuck his statement in his breast pocket. Landing in Bonn, Dulles looked tanned and completely relaxed, ready for work...
...Iowa had been admitted to the Union, but by order of the First General Assembly, the distinguished group of citizens were already looking over a site for the state university. "On that day," reported one of them later, "we met out-of-doors in a clearing in the hazel brush . . . Before the meeting, we got down on our knees in a circle, and we asked God for the wisdom to build a university that would turn out the kind of men this Common wealth will need." The group's prayers were apparently answered, for when the university finally opened...
...Brush with TIME...
...BRUSH Albuquerque...
...cables move the paralyzed fingers; the cables in turn are controlled by a pushbutton that can be worked by the other hand, by blowing through a tube or by pressure under the armpit. The metal hand has already enabled handicapped individuals to write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush their teeth and even shave.