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...mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared that the step "has undoubtedly improved the atmosphere...
...years, women have built beehives, French twists and bouffant extravaganzas out of their hair, hung flashing objects from it, plunged metal and wire supports into it, and gone out-of-doors stiff-necked for fear it will all come apart. Last week, still dissatisfied with their own, clearly inadequate hair, U.S. women were turning to wigs...
Unlike a human scalp, a wig's base produces no natural oil. Thus a dry cleaner can do every six weeks what a hairdresser has to do once a week; and best of all, only the hair sits under the dryer. Still, $250 is a fairly stiff price (really fine custom wigs can cost as much as $1,500) and at first wig-wearers consisted mostly of actresses, among them Shirley Booth, Judy Holliday. Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (who lost nine of her twelve wigs in last year's Bel Air fire...
...result of a typical power-mower accident, a two-year-old girl seemed, on admission to Vanderbilt University Hospital, to have poliomyelitis. She was feverish and had a stiff neck; her left eye and right side were partly paralyzed. But the doctors were puzzled by a bruise and swelling on the top of her head. Eventually, her parents recalled that six days earlier, something had hit her on the head while she was standing near a power mower. X rays showed that a piece of metal, more than an inch long, had penetrated the skull and a big abscess...
...return, the bill would impose much stricter penalties for violation of the Blue Laws. Under its provisions the state Attorney General and local district attorneys could seek injunctions to halt illegal Sunday activities. Failure to comply with an injunction would mean stiff fines or jail sentences...