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...snapped out of his boredom by a foot injury that begins to gangrene just when he comes across some books on yoga. Egmont decides to find out if death and disease can be vanquished by a conscious act of will. All that is needed, he feels, is to sink into one's "cellular consciousness" in order to control the action of body tissues. With his bosomy mistress Olga at his side, he enters a "semi-cataleptic" trance and "goes away" into his leg, clearing up the gangrene as the amazed Olga watches. Egmont is soon keen "to forget...
...slice of Texas life, Giant is something an audience can really sink its teeth into. As in life, what happens is not so important as how it happens, and thanks to Director Stevens' precise and sensitive control of the whole production -script and setting, color and sound, camera and actor-almost every moment in this movie happens with the sort of one-damn-thing-after-anotherness that carries a conviction of reality. The actors, for example, are amazingly well behaved. Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, neither of whom has been widely hailed as an outstanding acting talent, keep thoroughly...
...Canal Zone, the 60-year-old strongman withstood a four-hour bullet-removing operation and later a windpipe incision to ease his labored breathing. But he never fully regained consciousness in the U.S.-owned Gorgas Hospital. Late last week, just seven days after the shooting, he began to sink fast. A few hours later, as he had foreseen, Tacho Somoza was a goner...
...teachers--qualified or not--has become a difficult enough task these days. It would hardly seen sensible to start a recruitment campaign for more by discharging a large number of Negro teachers. But it would seem equally foolhardy to accept the unqualified Negro teachers and allow educational standards to sink to the lowest common denominator in integrated schools...
...sink this kind of dough into student aid and teachers' salaries. Henry G. Pearson...