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...assignment in stride ("I don't feel much different; I can handle it") and the siren man was even more blasé about his symphonic debut ("Doesn't bother me; I used to be in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Band"). Sally Herman, who does the barking, is a 25-year-old credit assistant at George Washington University Hospital. She landed the job unexpectedly by winning an audition over five real dogs. "I've never barked professionally," she explained. "I bark for kicks...
Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
...south China, Canton's Nam Fong daily reported famine in 50 out of 98 counties in Kwangtung, 20 out of 74 in neighboring Kwangsi, where some of the people were down to eating tree bark, grass and domestic pets. In Canton, 4,000 peasants were arrested for petty thefts like grabbing grocery parcels from pedestrians; the city's milk powder for babies was considered so poor and unusable that human milk was getting onto the market...
...Department have proved no more perplexing than Dean Bundy's, and occasionally we have even carried the word to the Western Allies. If the topic occasionally lacked proper weight, it was naturally obscured in a whimsical haze. These are all the dog days, however, and we are ready to bark up al the little trees at once. Following are a number of minor steam releasers, conveniently labeled so you can pick and choose...
...different categories of diseases, injuries and causes of death, including 125 methods of suicide. But in those parts of the world that are not used to statistics, tabulating figures on who died of what has proved difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody...