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...liver so far had suffered relatively little damage. As Suruga explained, after three months the backed-up bile is likely to cause irremediable cirrhosis of the liver. Another factor was most unfavorable: the bile ducts in the liver were the tiniest imaginable-averaging only one five-hundredth of an inch in diameter. Suruga is not hopeful unless they are twice that size, but he nevertheless decided to make the attempt...
...Just like a fish hook," he said and took a hammer from his overalls. He drove one of the notorious nails into an upright beam in the barn, up to a quarter-inch from its head...
...days passed, Byrne's choler mounted. With increasing disdain he denied prosecution motions to block revelation of the reports. The last of the studies finally arrived, and after reading the five-inch stack of documents, Byrne ruled last week that the bulk of them had to be turned over to the defense. Reason: They tended to prove the innocence of Ellsberg and Russo on at least some of the charges. According to the Government analyses, said, the judge, 13 of the 20 documents that Ellsberg and Russo released did not damage the national defense in any way-a seeming...
...Stakhanovites* had a powerful incentive. Last October Kaiser officials announced that the 4,000-ton-a-month plant was being shut down, a victim of rising costs and stiffening foreign competition; a ton of two-inch Fontana pipe that sold for $300 was being offered by Japanese mills for $240. Recalls Dino Papavero, president of United Steelworkers Local 2869: "We asked management to give us a chance to make the mill...
...cars have been on display in The Whitney Museum in New York. The main work, entitled "My First Car," is not so much Pop art as it is modern art. It consists of four sculptural units: "The Basic Chassis" made of wood, "The Master Chassis" made of half-inch steel tubing, and "The Stainless Steel Body" and "The Fabric Steel Body" mounted on dummy chassis. Resembling closely the sleek racers that are present on the drag strips every Sunday, "My First Car" is an exercise in sculptural design...