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...took a lot of nerve to advocate the use of pacifiers. After the war, the pacifier (a little plastic disc with a nipple on the end which babies suck to calm their nerves) was out of fashion for obvious reasons. But Spock, who has never let chauvinists or militarists bother him, pushed for social acceptance of the pacifier--clearly one of the major reasons we have so many pacifists around...
...skating rink at the Winter Olympics. What Vasarely would really like is to extend his designs to entire cityscapes. Toward that end he plans to open a study center in 1969 where urbanologists, architects and artists can meet. Their goal, as set by Vasarely, will be "to improve the plastic beauty of the city housing development, as indispensable to man's health as vitamins or love...
...People's Servant." Under the chapter head "Humility and Self-Criticism," there is a meaningful blank space. All told, Shepherd and Wren gathered about 300 quotations from Johnson-his folksiest and most fulsome. Simon & Schuster, which plans to publish the $2 booklet in March with a limp red plastic cover similar to Mao's, reports keen early bookstore interest. Some facets of Lyndonthink...
...demonstration and use of various techniques of massage. People should bring one large bath towel, vegetable oil, baby oil, and rubbing alcohol (with glycerin) and some kind of plastic bottle...
...road brings you into the center. Then suddenly the wall of the trees opens up, and there is a glimpse of long dirt roads, gas station signs and telephone poles, laundry spread out on the grass to dry, and people walking past rows of identical shops stacked with bright plastic washtubs. The reflection of the equatorial sun is painful. Round another bend, the trees close together again, and the view is all woods and vines for ten miles more...