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...best way to get rid of acne scars, Plastic Surgeon William G. McEvitt of Detroit announced last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
...Western Europe until Western Europe can produce enough to exchange goods for dollars. ERP's first two years halved this dollar shortage, but officials say that Western Europe is still five years away from becoming dollar self-sufficient. Part of the trouble is Western European reluctance to get rid of trade barriers; Paul Hoffman, ERP's head, is threatening to withhold part of his aid unless the ERP countries do something about freeing their own trade...
Whether it was right to gas the Jews is a debatable proposition. Maybe there were other ways of getting rid of them...
...summer. Confined to artists under 40, it offered top prizes of $1,000 and $700, plus trips to the U.S., Rome and Paris, drew 3,600 entries. A ten-man inter national jury had hung only 175 of the canvases submitted, but prune as they would, they could not rid the show of its generally sterile atmosphere...
Hutchins wanted to rid universities of any sort of specialization. He said it made universities "mere housing projects for men pursuing unrelated studies without the needful intercommunication...