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...only a couple of doors away. There, Dr. Lewis B. Woolner (Mayo) and Dr. James Humes (Navy) swiftly cut the main part in two and sprayed one half with a substance to deep-freeze it instantly. Then, with a microtome, they cut off slices only hundredths of a millimeter thick. Examined under the microscope, all the cells appeared to be normal; the polyp was noncancerous. All this took only 17 minutes...
...largest American campaign of the Viet Nam war raged last week in the thick jungle of Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon. Some 16,000 U.S. troops traded blows with an elusive Communist enemy that remained mostly hidden in his forest fastness, emerging occasionally to do vicious, bloody battle. So far, most of the blood was Red. In a week of fighting, more than 900 Viet Cong died...
...Florence, the tide tore through the walls of jewelers' shops on the Ponte Vecchio (built in 1345) and inundated the Piazza, della Signoria. Propelling logs and other debris, it piled autos into heaps of smashed steel and left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce...
...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...
Undermined by water pouring down its slopes, the great mass had split, and a 40-ft. tide of thick goo suddenly rolled like molten lava toward a cluster of homes-and toward the red-brick Pantglas Junior and Infants School, where some 250 youngsters between seven and eleven were just sitting down to class. Across the street, Mrs. Pearl Crowe heard the rumble and looked out of her window. "I saw a black mass of moving waste pouring steadily into the school, and part of the school collapsed. I was paralyzed." Ten-year-old Dilys Pope...