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...This urn was filled with charred pieces identified as bone, while seven smaller urns contained all other ashes, those of Nehru's body as well as the wooden funeral pyre...
...team led by Dr. Robert J. White takes a brain, which is about as big as a man's fist, out of a rhesus monkey's skull, retains only small bits of bone to serve as supports, and suspends the brain in an apparatus of tubes and rods. Its blood vessels are hitched to a small heart-lung machine, and fresh blood is supplied from a monkey blood bank. Delicate needles stuck in its surface al low an electroencephalograph to measure the electrical activity by which all brains do their work...
Died. Steve Owen, 66, longtime (1931-53) coach of the New York Giants, onetime cowpuncher from Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip, who played a bone-bruising tackle for five years for the Giants, as coach won eight Eastern Division titles and two world cham pionships, retired in 1953 when the razzle-dazzle aerial game found him wanting in the win column; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Oneida...
...slowly fills, Lake Nasser will obliterate the last traces of one of his tory's richest archaeological deposits. Bone-dry Nubia, the "land of gold," over which black men and white bat tled for 50 centuries, will be drowned. Though the Nubians themselves once ruled all Egypt (750-656 B.C.), they were frequently the victims of invaders. The Pharaoh Snefru 4,600 years ago reported "Nubia hacked to pieces: 7,000 men and women, 200,000 cattle and sheep led away." Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks and British followed, leaving hundreds of monuments, temples, fortresses, churches and works...
...Massachusetts Supreme Court struck a blow to "save our world-renowned fish chowder from degenerating into an insipid broth." As all seasoned slurpers should know, New England fish chowder is full of dangerous objects-from bones to bits of shell. And when Priscilla Webster swallowed without seining at Boston's Blue Ship Tea Room, she got a bone in her throat that required hospital extraction. Miss Webster sued, won a jury verdict of $1,800. On reversing it, the Supreme Court absolved the restaurant of responsibility for the damage done by "the bone of contention," even though "we sympathize...