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...Express reporters called at the Soviet embassy, Second Secretary Vladimir Pavlinov proved to be surprisingly communicative. "His name, gentlemen," said Pavlinov, "was in your newspaper." He held his thumb and forefinger an inch apart to indicate that he was referring to a small story. Sure enough, the Express had carried a ten-line item on Aug. 31 about the arrest of Lyalin and his release on $120 bail. Two hours after Lyalin failed to keep his court dates, the Foreign Office confirmed that he was indeed the Soviet defector...
...operation is always successful. But in carefully selected patients who remain faithful and skillful with the toothbrush, the results of the operation are encouraging. Of 182 implants performed on 52 people over a five-year period, 104 produced new bone up to 4 mm. (one-sixth of an inch) high. One resulted in a gain that can only be called spectacular. Before the operation, a 40-year-old housewife had infection and serious bone loss. Within a year her bone had regenerated to a normal contour...
...being a "little Napoleon." This might be one reason, perhaps, that Americans usually favor the tall political candidate: Feldman says that since 1900 the taller of the two major presidential candidates has always been sent to the White House,* even when the margin was Richard Nixon's one-inch advantage over Hubert Humphrey...
...liquid natural gas is an expensive operation: $625 to $750 per car. The major cost is for the tank that holds the gas, a complicated thermos-type bottle into which the liquid gas is poured at-259°F. A tank pressure of 70 lbs. per square inch forces the liquid into a combination pressure regulator and heat exchanger. The heated gas is then mixed with air in the carburetor and flows into the cylinders, where it burns more completely than ordinary gasoline vapor...
...alternating music from the Marine band, at one end of the field, and the Marine drum and bugle corps, at the other end, the marching companies move in swiftly, line up and fix silver bayonets on their M-1 rifles. They march in quick 30-inch steps, keeping their feet within two inches of the ground in a motion they call "slide and glide." Momentarily, the parade deck is cast into darkness. High on the ramparts of the east barracks, seven red-coated trumpeters, bathed in a floodlight, blow a fanfare. The musicians of the drum and bugle corps take...