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Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken may be the sort of static introspective play that is actually better read than seen. If faultlessly performed it might make robust drama, but the current production by the Theatre Company of Boston is not faultless...
Muscular and robust as it is, the heart is less tolerant of foreign materials. Washington Surgeon Charles Hufnagel overcame this intolerance in 1952, when he implanted the first artificial aortic valves, made of a Plexiglas ball in a Plexiglas sleeve. The ball has since been replaced by Silastic...
...sixth-grade teacher at P.S. 124 had been a robust baritone named Miss Kegan. That first day at P.S. 40 they gave us the afternoon off. The first thing we did was line up on the sidewalk across from P.S. 124, chanting "Mary Ann Kegan" up at the windows in an outburst of affectionate disrespect...
...lyrics in the middle of a song, and she can scoodee-oo-da for 800 bars without running out of fresh gibberish. For added sparks, she tosses in little shards of the classics, such as, say, a bit of the William Tell Overture. Then suddenly she turns to a robust fragment of Did You Ever...
Nearly every industry is setting new marks. Robust increases were reported by such varied companies as Alcoa (up 19% over 1963's third quarter), American Cyanamid (24%), Caterpillar Tractor (76%), Continental Can (26%), Eastman Kodak (39%), IBM (12%), Polaroid (83%) and Weyerhaeuser (123%). Steelmakers, who face labor negotiations next spring, were pleased but slightly red-faced about their spectacular profits: Republic up 79% , Jones & Laughlin up 97% , Youngstown Sheet & Tube...