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...breakthrough in the beauty business. "The treatment." reported Look in its Aug. 29 issue, "is the latest advance in substituting a chemical for the surgeon's knife." The article was directed at "the thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under...
Private Reasons. The disagreement came over timing. Rusk flew into Paris hoping to persuade his partners that there should be immediate contact with Russia to set a date and fix an agenda for a Berlin conference. This, he argued, would regain the initiative for the West. The French and West Germans were unwilling, and each has a private reason. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is in the midst of an election campaign and in particular wants no discussion of possible bargaining concessions or muddying up the electioneering before election day, on Sept...
...Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should realize she will never regain...
...thousand years, labeling the area Annam (pacified south), exacting tributes of pearls, precious stones, elephant tusks and valuable woods for the Emperor. Cleverly, the Annamese took the best China had to offer?the Chinese classics, the ethics of Confucius, and Mahayana Buddhism. But they fought fiercely and persistently to regain their independence...
...time they broke camp at dawn next day and headed for the city, they knew why a man returns again and again to the wilderness: to become aware once more, to regain his natural animal tension; to see the cardinal slash through a sea of green leaves like a streak of new blood; to know again that water has taste as well as temperature, to drink sloppily and desperately because his mouth is dry and his tongue too big for his mouth; to eat the fat trout quickly cooked after the catching; to backpack his gear through glades and trails...