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...ultimate expression of the Arden philosophy that "modern beauty is not a veneer of makeup, but intelligent cooperation with nature to develop a woman's finest natural assets" could be found at her two "Maine Chance" farms. She opened the original in Mount Vernon, Me., in 1934, followed up in 1947 with a second in Phoenix. Described as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," they prescribed a regimen of exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been...
When the SMA takes on all comers, as at an A.M.A. convention, it turns up a surprising number of previously undiagnosed abnormalities. Dr. Vernon...
Lowell Inn, Stillwater, Minn. Owner Mrs. Nelle Palmer considers her antique-laden inn "the Mount Vernon of the West." Diners know that the trout are fresh because they pick them from a pool...
Dramatic Drop. Meantime, CORE has been almost buried by the black-power struggle and its own intransigence. Supported mainly by contributions from whites, the majority of them Jews, CORE experienced a dramatic drop in income after a Mount Vernon, N.Y., CORE official said in a speech that Hitler's big mistake was that he had not killed more Jews. More contributors dropped out when CORE embraced black power early this summer, and so did the whites who had helped run CORE; there are now no whites in the organization's hierarchy. CORE's income is running...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...