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Unmarked Vans. No show in the staid B.M.'s history ever generated such fuss or demanded such elaborate preparation. First, a firm of English packers spent five weeks in Cairo crating the treasures-each wrapped in cellophane, encased in plastic quilts, set on a foam cushion tray and finally shut in a carpeted crate. The museum stepped up its security precautions. When this groundwork (estimated cost: $900,000) had been done, the 41 crates were flown at night from Cairo in two BOAC freighters and one R.A.F. jet, then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities...
...trying to use jet fuel for cooking, scarred by a wasting sickness called noma which is brought on by malnutrition, or crippled by other diseases that might be brought under control during peacetime. But Lang is a little luckier than most. He is being treated at the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Saigon, the only place in Viet Nam that can help large numbers of seriously disfigured or disabled child-casualties of the war. Said one of Lang's doctors...
...good shape. At Chicago's Jewel Food Stores, the profit margin has slipped slightly since Phase II began. The huge A. & P. chain lost money last year. New consumer-protection laws have also boosted the super-marketeers' costs; they often have to put meat in relatively expensive plastic see-through trays and must absorb the administrative expenses of posting "unit prices" (prices per Ib.) of all goods...
...rent first to a local landlord, then for six years to the Viet Cong, then to the original landlord, who moved back after government troops "pacified" the village in 1968. Today, Cau serves only his own family of six. He keeps the title to his land, rolled in protective plastic, tucked away in a cranny of his small house...
...then it may be too late; endometrial cancer kills about 3,500 American women a year. The Gravlee Jet Washer, a new device now being marketed by the Upjohn Company, gives physicians a less complicated way to get samples of endometrial cells. A disposable syringe attached to a soft plastic tube, it is used to introduce a saline solution into the uterus, then to draw the liquid out. Cells from the uterine lining carried out in the solution can then be analyzed microscopically. Tested on 305 patients at the University of Chicago's Lying-in Hospital, the washer proved...