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...city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto a 5½-inch by 3½-inch postcard, giving her impressions of Ibadan life...
Last week Mrs. Ribicoff went to the operating room in University Hospital. Columbus, under heavy sedation and local anesthetics. From the thigh. Surgeon Saunders took a "split-thickness graft"-a piece of skin about two by three inches less than 1/50 inch thick. Then he cut loose both sides of the nose so that he could lift them like flaps to get at the lower part of the septum, the gristly central partition. He scraped the mucous lining off this, removing many of the telangiectases with the membrane. Finally, Dr. Saunders put patches of the graft skin on each side...
...expedition found its first Lydian gold when it followed up the lead of modern graverobbers. A tomb of a Lydian lady had been illicitly opened during the winter; the archaeologists completed the excavation by sifting every bit of earth. Out of the dirt came a half-inch gold bead, delicately adorned with tiny gold globules, an agate pendant on gold wire, and a tiny silver figurine of a hawk, From broken pottery in the grave, the archaeologists dated the burial to the time of Croesus' father, about...
Overpressure is the number of pounds per square inch (p.s.i.) above normal atmospheric pressure exerted by the blast wave of a nuclear explosion. An overpressure exceeding 20 p.s.i. can be fatal to a human being...
Nuzzling Birds. New York Times Financial Columnist Burton Crane has put out an album called Stock Market Profits for the Sophisticated Investor, presumably for the investor who is not sophisticated enough to read Crane's columns or books. Occupying six twelve-inch sides, it is as long as many complete operas, is salted with Crane's forthright advice: "Get the hell out at the first sign of high water...