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...Berlin Bone. But the stickiest agenda issue was the one which precipitated the summit in the first place: Berlin...
After as little as one week, the femurs (leg bones) of young mice get rounder in cross section than normal femurs. Dr. Wunder believes that this change is an adaptation to strengthen the bone and allow it to support the abnormal weight of the high-G mouse. Chickens react in somewhat the same way: Dr. Alfred Smith of the University of California has found that when they are centrifuged, the anti-gravity muscles of their drumsticks grow to as much as seven times normal. But chickens are not so successful as mice at high-G reproduction. They try-but tend...
Down to the Bone. How did Stubbs learn his art? One contemporary described a scene that took place in a farmhouse in Lincolnshire. "The first subject that [Stubbs] prepared was a horse which was bled to death by the jugular vein. A Bar of Iron was then suspended from the ceiling . . . and the animal was suspended to the iron bar. [Stubbs] first began by dissecting the muscles of the abdomen proceeding thro five different layers ... Then he proceeded to dissect the head ... he made careful designs and wrote the explanation which usually employed him a whole day. He then took...
...Quaker doctor," a species of tonic peddler who "thee'd" and "thou'd" dollars out of rubes' back pockets-and, naturally, had no connection with the Society of Friends. He learned early the bases of his calling-how to exploit hypochondria, and how to aggravate the bone-bred dislike of the ignorant for honest physicians ("Don't let your doctor two-dollar you to death," he was to thunder later...
Says the Post's Nixon-baiting Editor James Wechsler: "You can imagine our surprise when we saw that column." Now and then, to keep sports fans from starving, Robinson throws them a bare bone: "The National League picture this year again shows a race between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Milwaukee." The Post seems satisfied enough with its bargain. Says Editor Wechsler: "There's a lot of reaction to the column pro and con, but the main thing is that there is reaction. The writing style may not be the greatest in history...