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...wrapping. The results: a guaranteed loss of two inches the first session, five by the fifth. The naked customer is marked and measured by a white-smocked technician, who then takes rolls of wet linen and firmly wraps her in oversize bandaging from the ankles up, pressing the fat upward. "It really is tight," reported an impressed client last week. "You wonder if gangrene won't set in before they finish." Wrapping stops at the breasts, but encases bulging upper arms...
...statuary, giving a much needed accent to the wide expanse of Embarcadero Plaza. But the furious Vaillancourt refuses to admit that there can be any separation of art from politics. "I am a very emotional man," he explained. "It is all the same thing." Then, prodding his middle finger upward in the direction of the speakers' platform, he added: "And if they do not like it, f- them...
...major causes of this progress were a marked decline in mortgage interest rates and a dip in automobile prices as dealers discounted heavily to get sales going fast after the General Motors strike. On the other hand, services continued their steady march upward (except for the mortgage rates, which, like other non-goods, are considered services). Food prices rose more than usual for the early part of the year. Considering that they might be forced higher by an impending corn blight and the drought in the Southwest, and that neither mortgage rates nor auto prices are likely to fall further...
...common and fashionable once upon a time for earnest reformers to cite such examples as proof of the "outrageous corruption" which goes on under machine government. These arguments were usually countered by machine advocates and apologists who would point out that the machine often served as a means of upward mobility for poor, recently arrived ethnic groups. They might also suggest that corruption is simply another means of "interest articulation...
ANOTHER reason for the machine's succes?? Daley's ability to manipulate white fears. His famous shoot-to-kill order is one example of this. His criticisms of Martin Luther King (before his death, of course) are another. Moreover, Daley firmly believes in the American ethic of upward mobility. When a nun who did social work on the West Side visited Daley to tell him of the poverty she had seen, Daley, in a long-winded reply, pointed out to the nun that their "grandparents can?? here with nothing," The blacks, he said, "should lift themselves up by their bootstraps...