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Patched up with 20 plastic-surgery operations after a plane crash last year, Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of France's President, announced in Buffalo that she had learned to fly a helicopter-"a more rational plane," said she, "for a woman pilot...
...Samples: 25? for a piece of hand-split lath; $100 for enough bricks to face an ordinary fireplace. In addition, the commission was preparing special souvenir kits containing chunks of wood suitable for gavel-making or a handmade nail and a piece of stone which could be set in plastic for a paperweight. Each item will be accompanied by a metal tag certifying that it is a true piece of the White House...
...sense of catastrophe grew rapidly. In the U.S., top scientists were urgently enlisted in Operation Protoprotoplasm-trying to create human life in test tubes. Female impersonators had a field day. So did the manufacturers of the "Miss America Dolls"-life-size models of the human female made of foam plastic...
...know, the present trays were made when the metal shortage got rough during the war, by grinding up salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly...
...time Albert Grimes came to his attention, Dr. Berman was ready to carry his experiment a step further. It took the surgeon just over an hour to cut out six inches of Grimes's cancerous gullet and sew a plastic tube into its place. Within a month his patient, back on a soft diet, had begun to recover from the effects of starvation and to gain back some of the 40 pounds he had lost. Last week, still at the hospital, but spry and full of jokes about his lack of front teeth, Patient Grimes was looking forward...