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Since late 1962, Charnley has used the polyethylene socket, which is also cemented in place with methyl methacrylate. In an intensive follow-up of his first 500 cases, Charnley has found the cement holding perfectly. The polyethylene, originally 10 mm. thick, wears away at the rate of about 1 mm. in five years. "No discomfort should be noticed until at least 50% has worn away," he says, "and if that happens, we can always replace the socket...
...miners went to the union and pleaded for leadership. There wasn't any. The dust was thick in the mines: nobody seemed to care. Then, in May, 1968, 25 men were trapped for ten days in a mine at Hominy Falls: Four died. The rest came out, in a spectacular resence heavily covered by the national press. Suddenly people were aware ? a little-of hard times in the mines. And West Virginia miners were getting together to form the Black Lung Association. They covered the state, working with Dr. Buff and building up organizational strength...
Public Process. Materials for the new sculptures included eleven huge concrete blocks weighing as much as 1,500 lbs. apiece, 15 two-in.-thick steel plates weighing between 2,400 lbs. and 4,000 lbs. each and 80 unwieldy wooden beams of the type that carried traffic on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue during recent subway construction. To make room, the Whitney cleared away all the partitions in its 108-ft.-long third-floor gallery. As workmen moved in with gantries, forklifts and hydraulic jacks to help Morris do his thing, the museum took on the look of a midtown...
Tear gas in the vicinity of Adams, Lowell, and Quincy Houses was sometimes as thick as fog. Students repeatedly cried for water. Many held moistened towels over their mouths and noses. Small puddles of vomit dotted the streets...
...fact that [these films received so many nominations] many have more to do with beef Stroganoff and imported champagne and three-inch thick prime ribs than with anything in the nature of Academics," an article in the New York Times said a week ago. The gist of the article was that there is a direct correlation between the amount of promotion within the Academy that a film gets and the number of nominations it receives...