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Alleviating the pain of prowling through 23 pages of such high prose are little illustrations by a mysterious MCR, which draw the hearts of young males toward the lovely women whom she ostensibly pictures. The pages teem with agonized girls burning button-down shirts they are trying to iron; with fearful owls who have VC emblazoned on their chests; with dungareed, odd-shaped beauties whanging guitars; and with mink-coated so-phisticates dreaming of palm trees and sun (apparently there is little of the latter in "the Pough...
...olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife. "If any of you jump me, I'm going to use this," she cried. All pretense at education collapsed as the Battle of Nashville got under...
...Developed by an aircraft design engineer named Leslie L. Miller, the Auto-Nurse is a complicated arrangement of harness, pulleys and cables powered by a tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair. The machine has safety features so that the patient will not be dropped in the event of short circuits. Worst consequence: patient could be left suspended...
...shortly thereafter-look out, here comes another psychic sidekick. This one calls herself Jane, and seems to be a normal, healthy girl-a sort of emotional median between the other two-but as far as the moviegoer is concerned, the picture has become a drearily confusing game of button, button, who's got her buttons...
...Honorable Man. As patriarch of the hacienda, Richard King sported a black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm...