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...stone and wood statues were full-bodied; the bronze figures are slimmed down to bone and sinew. The surfaces are rough, and the resultant ripple adds to the sense of movement. There is nothing slavishly naturalistic about Gross; he distorts freely for the sake of balance and design. "I used to say that if they tried, not one of my little circus girls could get up and walk away-people aren't built that way. But if you get away from straight naturalistic forms, it sometimes makes things more interesting." Gross is refreshingly unafraid of repeating himself: "I love...
...second-quarter steel production-perhaps as much as 10%-as steel buyers work off the 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 tons of extra inventory that they have piled up in recent weeks as a strike hedge. But inventories are not likely to be cut to the bone so long as the prospect of a wage reopener lies ahead, and most experts predict that steel production for the year will rise about 10%, to roughly 110 million tons...
...months after she took Chloromycetin late in 1958, Mrs. Love felt weak and went to another doctor, who diagnosed aplastic anemia, in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells. Her husband sold his business, the Beer Barrel Tavern outside Redding, to pay for her care, including 60 transfusions. At Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, the transfusions and vigorous treatment with cortisone and testosterone kept Mrs. Love among the 25% of patients who get aplastic anemia and survive, but the hormones produced their own side effects. Though Chloromycetin causes these severe reactions in only one of an estimated...
...bone. I guess it's true what they say about the age of miracles, eh, Martha...
...vicious influence of African nationalism has turned their bone marrow to jelly." That is how Sir Roy Welensky, ex-boxer, ex-train engineer and for five years Federal Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, describes certain "metropolitan countries," presumably including Britain. Reason for Sir Roy's wrath:the situation in Northern Rhodesia, latest on the seemingly endless list of African trouble spots...