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Personality & Prospects: Razor-sharp, affable, cool, sensible, he has been popular in the Pentagon, at the White House, with both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, and with the press corps, which has found him straightforward and helpful. Long in the ranks of progressive Republicans, he has been considered somewhat too "liberal" by some of the Taft-wing leaders of the G.O.P. in Nebraska and in Washington. But most knowing observers who have watched him operate agree with the evaluation of G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall that he is "a damn smart politician," and perhaps the most politically promising member...
Oats for the Mind. Lawyer Douglas found, like others before him, that the materialistic paradise of the workers is still pretty much a promise of pie in the dialectical sky. A haircut, he reports appreciatively, costs only 40?-but in 1955 the average Russian male got exactly five razor blades. A Russian family eats meat no more than once a week. A worker can buy a refrigerator for $165, but his annual income is about $600. Six families sometimes share a kitchen and a toilet...
Last night the police were still without any clues to the identity of this attacker, whose methods have formed a persistent pattern. He either lets the air out of all four tires, or pierces each of them with a razor-sharp, pointed instrument, like a filed ice-pick. As a final artistic gesture, the windshield wipers on most of the cars have been twisted back...
...scugnizzi for a handout, then drifted off with them. Suddenly a big teen-ager turned on him and snapped: "Who are you?" "What do you want?" countered Father Borelli. The leader ordered: "Take your hands out of your pockets!" "Why?" asked the priest. The scugnizzo lunged forward with a razor, and Father Borelli removed his hands. Thus he learned a scugnizzo rule: concealed hands mean concealed weapons...
FREE-TRIAL TRICKERY is being charged by FTC to electric razor maker Schick. FTC says Schick fails to make all dealers honor its nationally advertised 14-day free-trial offer; those who do, adds FTC, often refuse to return purchase price to dissatisfied customers and some dealers also sell demonstration razors...