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Backyard Ark. There are other self-deluders: the producer whose vision of himself as a healer (dispensing Understanding through Adult Entertainment) sends "waterfalls of vanity pour[ing] through the man"; the elderly German immigrant who is so convinced that he will be the sole human survivor of nuclear attack that he builds an ark in his back yard and stocks it with animals. Author Marcus writes of them with a compassion untainted by sentimentality. Like a somewhat similar writer, Hollywood's late Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), he has a quick eye and a sharp ear. Nothing...
...Sooner the Better. One of the first of the pressure pioneers, Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (pronounced Boor-uh-muh), did his earliest work with his smallest patients-"blue babies," whose red blood cells were being starved of oxygen. Born with defects in the heart or its surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells...
...reported that the soup and coffee were "solidly frozen in the thermos" by the time they arrived. The blizzard lasted for 40 hours. When the skies finally cleared, onlookers below anxiously scanned the wall with telescopes, and light planes swarmed back and forth. There were the climbers-start ing up again...
...with a lovely garden and still water; or to tiptoe through the mystery and dimness of a Buddhist temple and come upon a court of raked white gravel dazzling in the sunlight ; or to walk a narrow street in Rome and suddenly face an open square with graceful splash ing fountains." To these abstract ingredients, Yamasaki has lately added another one that is quite
...adding spaces if necessary to fill out the line. When it comes to a word that has to be hyphenated, which happens about every five lines, it hesitates momentarily while it consults a quick-access memory. If the word has a recognizable prefix or a familiar ending, such as -ing or -tion, the memory tells the computer in millionths of a second how to hyphenate correctly...