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Like Willie & Joe. On the morning of the fifth day, Merchant and Lummis sat wearily by the road. They looked like Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe. Both wore filthy fatigues and a week's growth of beard. Their shoulders slumped and their buttons were unbuttoned. They were perfect examples of what-according to officer candidate schools-officers should never, never look like...
...eyeball and pushing the clouded lens down out of the light rays' path. This partly restored the patient's sight, though not his power to focus. Susruta also anticipated modern aseptic surgery: his operating room was fumigated with sweet vapors; the surgeon kept his hair and beard short, his nails and hands clean. His patients even seem to have inhaled some kind of anesthetic...
...Catt of Saint John, N.B. went fishing on the Miramichi River, where salmon are so numerous and eager that they have been known to attack a man wearing a bright necktie with a design of hand-painted trout flies. Catt had just settled down to fish when a white-bearded old man came along, spoke sadly of his yearning to catch one last salmon and asked to borrow the rod & line. Catt had barely handed over the tackle when a fighting salmon shot out of the water, twisting & turning the line around the old man's whiskers. Quick-thinking...
...Soon there will be 100 more, and the system is scheduled to spread to foreign countries. Some airlines (e.g., American) are already fully equipped to use omni; others are converting to it rapidly. Its safety and security appeal to all pilots. Says American's chief engineer, "Dan" Beard: "Imagine you had the windows of your car whitewashed. Then you cut a hole in the floor and could follow a white line on the road. That would be track-and track is what omnirange gives...
...farming village of Manpori to show some movies. By 9 in the evening, when the program began, almost 3,000 people, the entire population of the township, had crowded into the open-air theater. After the show was over, an old and respected farmer, dignified with his pointed white beard and black undersize hat, stood up to thank the Americans. "You have left your great cities that we have seen tonight to come here," he said, "and we are grateful. We are happy that the men from America are with us-and we hope that they will stay...