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...Pin Money. In Paterson, N.J.. Charles Alfier entered the Guarantee Meat Market in the predawn, tried to carry off the cash register, was found lying under it, pinned to the floor, when the store opened...
What did the kids (average age: 23) have? Most obviously, boundless energy, meshed-gear precision, dramatic flair, sheer physical virtuosity. In superbly mounted national folk dances and "popular ballets" (original works on contemporary Russian themes), the men soared above the stage in spring-legged leaps that seemed to pin them in the air as if frozen by a strobe light, whipped their bodies into angles few Western dancers would even attempt. In Polyanka (The Meadow), files of dancers snaked across the stage in a sinuous blur of speed, hurled past one another in a complex tracery. Partisans had the black...
...Golf pros put up with a lot to compete for more than $200,000 in prize money at Business Engineer George S. May's four Tam O'Shanter tournaments in Chicago each summer. They pin numbers on their backs, refrain from throwing clubs when they flub shots, even mind their language. But when the Professional Golfer's Association refused to let May pocket all the entry fees to help pay the expenses of running his extravaganza, the well-heeled promoter took offense. He called off the world's richest tournaments...
...basis of 60 cases Psychiatrist Mosse has seen at Manhattan's Lafargue Clinic and in private practice, "far more often than not this diagnosis is wrong." Without trying to pin on diagnostic labels of her own, Dr. Mosse cites children who showed behavior problems or suffered from common juvenile fantasies, only to be pushed into mental hospitals and given shock treatment, which made them worse...
Conquest: CBS's science report showed the first pictures ever taken of actual atoms-electronically magnified 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 times and falling in lacy, snowflake patterns on the point of an extra-sharp pin. But the show's most stirring segment was an open-heart operation filmed in a University of Minnesota hospital. The patient: a pretty five-year-old blue baby named Debbie, who was wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator...