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...conducted. The Uni versity of Pennsylvania's Dr. Luigi Mastroianni, who has him self fertilized eggs in vitro but never attempted to implant them, points out that the British researchers had not provided any details about the condition of Mrs. Brown's fallopian tubes. "If they are completely absent," said Mastroianni, "you must accept the fact that the egg was fertilized in vitro. But if they are just damaged, there's always the possibility that the egg may actually have been fertilized in vivo [in the body] ? that the tubes may have functioned again." Sir John Stallworthy, president...
...custody (26 were free on their own recognizance, five are still at large), kept up an emotional tirade against the judge, the jury and their own defense counsel. But when Judge Barbaro read the verdict, as more than 800 carabinieri and other police ringed the courthouse, the defendants were absent from the steel-barred cage in which they had been kept during the proceedings. They had all elected to remain in their cells as a protest against what they called a "court of the regime...
...surprise, was Holland, an erratic but courageous crew much faded from its splendor of 1974, when the Dutch lit up the World Cup before losing valorously, 2-1, to the Germans in the final at Munich. The other was, and had to be, the wonderfully likable Argentine team, absent-minded on defense (as the Dutch themselves were), rough and rowdy at both ends of the field and a raging if sometimes patternless force on offense...
...Callahan thought he had failed to capture his audience. But a week later he got a call from the school's principal. One of the roamers kept singing over and over the song from "Raspberries." When he was asked to retell the story to students who had been absent, the boy went on for about 45 minutes, scarcely missing a detail...
...Shields, Charlaine Woodard-are equally superb. Indeed, the funniest song in the show is Ken Page's Your Feet's Too Big. Sitting alone with a glass of booze at a cafe table, Page yells out at his absent woman, "From your ankles up, I'll say you sure are sweet./ But from there down, baby, there's just too much feet." By the time he gets to the reprise, every foot in the theater is stomping: "Don't want you 'cause your feet...