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...rest more often play at writing. All of them display the defect of dramatic inbreeding, attending plays instead of observing life. They share the avant-garde's peculiar complacency of despair. They seem to have acquired pain without suffering, ideas without thinking. As weather prophets of some endless bone-chilling night, they need to remind themselves that the sun also rises...
...this is little more than a dummy issue. The real bone of contention is automation, a thorny problem left unresolved by the last strike. The printers were then alarmed at the job threat posed by such new devices as computer-operated, tape-fed typesetting machines, now installed or on order at two of Manhattan's six dailies (the Times and the Post). Management is equally concerned, and has offered to neutralize the threat by attrition: to let only death, retirement and resignation, and not the machines, winnow the present population of the composing room. This concert of minds speaks...
...Huskies' strong second period attack resulted in their first two goals. Paul Bloh scored first on Larry Bone's rebound at 15:25, with Fitzsimmons out of position...
...unimportant matter"-and she attacks a slalom course like a fullback, flailing furiously with her poles, bowling over the gates, diving headlong across the finish line. Her hell-bent style has its disadvantages: Marielle has broken her left leg three times-while Christine has never broken a bone. But slow down? Never. "Sometimes, after I have skied particularly well, I think that I am not capable of going any faster," Marielle says. "Then, a few days later, I do even better. But that's life...
...most common skiing accident is fracture of the ankle or lower leg, and strains at the knee. Dr. Manson therefore reiterates the importance of having good equipment: an efficient safety binding will convert a stress capable of breaking a bone into a simple strain, and a stress capable of producing a strain into nothing but a loosened...