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...timid-or independent-souls who are still wondering whether to buy those "new" '40s-inspired clunky platform shoes, the question may soon be irrelevant. With its usual fickleness, fashion is already whizzing on. "Down from those three-inch platforms," say the heralds of chic, "and onward to something older!" For many designers and their customers, the In echo is of the '20 -not so much the roaring of the jazz babies in speakeasies as the tinkling of cocktail glasses on Long Island lawns and the rustle of silk against chiffon...
...continuing drought threatens to cut into this year's food production as well. To combat this danger, hundreds of thousands of urban office workers are being sent out to work in the countryside. In eastern Shansi province, which has had less than one-fourth of an inch of rain since October (compared with an average annual rainfall of 15 inches), Taiyuan Radio broadcast instructions that "manpower, material and finance be first concentrated on conservation projects that can give benefits this spring." Workers hope to sink 30,000 new wells and install nearly 50,000 pumps in other wells before...
...distinctly preppy atmosphere permeates the place. Only the Faculty Club can claim more vests, ties, and jackets per square inch of club floor space. Long hair is rare. Pudding men tend to look more like Cleveland Jaycees than undergraduates or "theater people...
...British servants) supports no less than eight branch offices of New York Stock Exchange firms; a bank that handles about $500 million in its trust department; some 25 art galleries peddling an estimated $10 million worth of what local Culture Critic Rolf Kaltenborn calls "the worst art per square inch of any place in the world"; a brand new Rolls-Royce dealership that has sold 35 cars since its opening in West Palm Beach last September; and a mayor who campaigns, usually unopposed, in a mere Cadillac...
...Curve. The surgery lasted ten hours. Almost 3/2 hours were spent dissecting the adhesions of scar tissue left by an earlier operation in New York to correct an intestinal blockage. Only then was Suruga able to snip out an eight-inch section of jejunum (the upper part of the small intestine) and to fashion it into the shape of a U (see diagram). Next he trained his surgical microscope, working at 20-to 40-power magnification, on the minuscule bile ducts. He exposed them, and with incredibly fine needlework sewed one branch of the U over them like a funnel...