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...Sticky Patch. Film insurance has, in fact, been a frisky business lately. Lloyd's several other English firms and San Francisco's Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.-the only American underwriter in the field-have been slogging about in what one English expert calls "a rather sticky patch." The death of Tyrone Power during Solomon and Sheba caused the biggest settlement in history: Fireman's Fund paid United Artists $1,219,172. The vaguely defined illnesses that put France Nuyen out of Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell...
...public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The film shows dozens of scientists and technicians working for nine months to patch two small holes that had been burned in the 5/16-in. zirconium shell of the reactor's fiercely radioactive core...
...technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes in the reactor shell, making them easier to patch...
...only a mass of flesh and viscera but also a piece of geology-a part of history, a part of the earth. As for scale, Dubuffet would have none of it. A painting could be both a vast landscape and at the same time a tiny patch of dust seen through a microscope. Nor was the beholder ever supposed to know just what Dubuffet's images were supposed to be. "I am pleased," he said, "to see life in trouble, going insane-hesitating between certain forms that we recognize as belonging to our familiar surroundings and others that...
...artery together and stitch them: 2) make a slit in the side of the artery, insert a special instrument, ream out the fatty debris and close the incision with a couple of stitches; 3) slit the artery lengthwise along the blocked stretch and put a long oval plastic patch in the wall to increase its diameter; 4) make an artificial detour for the blood by splicing a length of plastic tube into the artery, above and below the blocked section...