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...Here," the doctor promised as he flicked away the follicle, "we will restore your weakened hair roots, and your hair." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Certainly," he said. "The treatments will clean our the Sibborea, while the $20 home set--he indicated the tricolored array of bottles--will get rid of the germs." "How much for the treatments?" I asked. "Two hundred dollars," he said easily...
Last week the State Department announced that, since the new Administration began, it had rid itself of 21 homosexuals and other bad security risks. In one week, eight sexual deviates and five other security risks had been "separated" from the service. Score since 1947: more than 325 homosexuals fired or forced to resign after the department found them bad risks...
...follow our example and get off our backs. So I just say, let's practice what we preach, where it will do us and our allies some real good. Let's give our friends a fair crack at the American market . . . I believe we ought to get rid of the 10% tariff on automobiles* at once...
...compulsory grading of cattle required by OPS regulations. Before the week was out, the cattlemen got their wish: the Administration discarded meat-price ceilings (see above), and grading automatically became a voluntary matter again, as in pre-OPS days. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson advised cattlemen to rid their minds of "unwarranted pessimism" and to avoid "panic selling." By week's end the stampede to the stockpens had slowed down, and cattle prices had firmed. An Agriculture Department bulletin reported: "The sharp decline in meat-animal prices seems to be about ended...
Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody...