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However, the librarians tour Lamont to see if students are using non-Harvard books and make a random check of bursar's cards each day, Ernst noted. "It might be sufficient if men showed their bursar's cards when they take out books," he said...
When it comes to treatment after the damage is done, the researchers were more tentative in their reports. Most positive was Houston's famed surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey, who reported that in a random series of 150 stroke victims examined by arterial X rays, no fewer than 43% were adjudged capable of getting substantial relief from prompt surgery...
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (179 pp.)-Truman Capote-Random House...
ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, by Isak Dinesen (244 pp.; Random House; $3.75), tells how, once upon a time, there was a theological student of Shiraz who thought highly of angels-so highly that he made himself wings and got all set for flight to the angelic spheres. But the Shiraz authorities, who disapproved of high-flown ideas, dressed up a beautiful dancer to look like an angel and planted her on the roof of the student's house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct...
...BURNING MAN (428 pp.)-Stephen Longstreet-Random House...