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...plane. A few minutes later, Sergeant K., hunched over a radio set, reported: "We have contact with Dienbienphu." Deep down below us, a brilliant white light floated in the air for a few seconds, then died out-perhaps a Communist mortar flare. Luciole started weaving on a gentle, irregular pattern...
Concludes Keen: "William Shakespeare has given us many a picture of many a life, but unhappily not a word about his own-a most vexatious man . . . Yet it is not difficult to see a pattern from which one might plot a new biography...
Among men, penile cancer is far rarer than cervical cancer among women, but its occurrence follows the same pattern. Dr. Wynder's deduction: circumcision may be a big help in preventing both, presumably because it facilitates personal cleanliness...
...wrote Born Yesterday as well as the screenplay for this film, is well satisfied with his heroine's limitations. The blonde in this story is a former New York girdle model who put three-quarters of an inch onto her hipline and grew out of every available designer's pattern. Reluctant to return to Mother without achieving fame, she spends her savings to display her name, Gladys, Glover, on a four-story billboard in Columbus Circle. The ensuring difficulties confuse the other protagonists of the film while Gladys Glover remains blissfully unshaken. This unawareness, along with Glady's bewildered glances...
...tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...