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...years, waiting patiently-but his singers never got out of the powder room. Not that the management wasn't serious about that new house. Indeed, the Be-Patient-New-Met's-A-Comin' recitative echoed through the old house more regularly than the Anvil Chorus. At one time or another, sites for a new Met were planned on 49th Street, 57th Street, 59th Street, 63rd Street, 110th Street, Washington Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge. In 1938, a 3,700-seat theater was actually built in Rockefeller Center...
Doctors who have worked with the staplers are impressed with their uniform precision and safety even more than their time-saving abilities. The staples are bent by the instrument's grooved anvil at tolerances of two-thousandths of an inch; their tops are rounded like the letter B so that blood can continue to circulate through the two arches and the sutured tissue will not be squeezed to death. Unlike silk or catgut sutures, which can harbor infection, the stainless steel staples are virtually nonreactive and do not hinder healing...
...residents turned out to greet the French leader. Accompanied by Podgorny and Zorin, De Gaulle inspected power plants and electrical-equipment factories, then stalked through Akademgorodok, a seven-year-old academic city of 37,000, which gave him the opportunity to strike again on the anvil of Franco-Russian cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy I am visiting today is the successor of one founded by Peter the Great in 1725? Later, the same drive that inspired Czar Peter carried you to Siberia, to discover great riches: oil, gas, metals. And to construct...
Swooping in from north, south and west, the heliborne Americans hammered the Reds down onto an anvil of South Vietnamese motorized troops. One battalion was run to ground near the village of Tham Son, ten miles north of Bong Son. Red machine guns forced back an assault by troopers of one Air Cav battalion. The Americans dug in behind 2-ft. paddy walls and called for air strikes. Flights of fighter-bombers screeched in with napalm followed by bombs to spread the flaming jellied gasoline. Toll: 146 dead Reds...
...them through the swamps. The Reds refused to join battle, fell back slowly under a protective hail of small-arms fire. Then in whirled a covey of U.S. choppers carrying the "anvil"-troops of the South Vietnamese 44th Ranger Battalion, who landed behind the Reds and quickly blocked their avenue of withdrawal. Pinned down, the V.C. had no choice but to fight. The hammer fell with devastating effect: 158 Reds were killed by the ground troops, an estimated 100 more by close-support air strikes. Far to the north, near Danang, U.S. Marines pioneered a new approach to airborne mobility...