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...Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Nobler, an X ray with a grid background is made of the body area involved. On this X ray the radiologists mark the vital organs, such as lungs, which must be shielded. A template is made, and then engineers cut out lead shields 21 inches thick to this pattern. The shields, placed in the head of the accelerator, protect the areas on which they cast shadows...
...presenting Admiral Gorshkov as a real tough guy, you write: "While his aides looked on aghast in Agra last week, he seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders." I am afraid you were misled by the photographer. Maybe the admiral is not so tough. The snake in the picture is the same one put on my shoulder just the other day by the Indian fellow who supplies it for 130 or one rupee...
Bang Bang. What makes Laugh-In laughable is not so much the material as the freewheeling, pell-mell pace at which it is dished out. One-liners fly like ack-ack, and if there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that...
...This thick volume of correspondence presents a unique over-the-shoulder view of the intimate relationship between the master politician of the New Deal and the great jurist who was his friend and adviser. The most startling aspect of that view is Felix Frankfurter's capacity for ladling out the adulation and his President's insatiable capacity for lapping it up. In their candor, the letters are an almost unexampled casebook of politics and history in the making...
Engines Running. The transport pilots take enormous risks to bring supplies into Khe Sanh. The base sits in a valley that is at present enveloped almost constantly by a thick mist that will not lift until the monsoon ends in early April. Pilots must feel their way in for landings with a ceiling of less than 100 ft.-even though Air Force standards call for a minimum of 300 ft. In addition to the mist, they must make their letdown through turbulent air and a tail wind, cope with a sudden updraft before touchdown and land on a runway that...