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...Ribicoff's cousins have it, but her own two children apparently do not. In this disorder, the blood itself is normal. But in some parts of the body, there are abnormal swellings of the ends of minute arteries and veins. These "end-vessel swellings" (telangiectases) burst and bleed...
...Rolls-Royce, Ltd. would survive on its aeroengine business, which now accounts for 85% of the company's sales. But even the suggestion that Lloyd might destroy the most famed surviving symbol of British craftsmanship won Lord Kindersley some surprising allies. "My heart doesn't bleed for the expense-account set," said one London workman over his nightly pint of bitter, "but if that's what keeps Rolls-Royce going, I'm willing to pay the price...
Barracuda Waters. Not all of Dos Passos' sad sagas involve labor unions. Jasper Milliron is a driving venture capitalist who hopes to give an old-line baking-powder company a technological transfusion. Instead he sees his dream bleed to death in the barracuda waters of corporate executive suites. "Man is a creature that builds institutions," writes Dos Passos. The larger moral of Midcentury is that these institutions in turn grow so big and rigid, corrupt and powerful that they crush and entrap the builders. Whether it is bigness or power spawned by bigness that corrupts, big labor can scarcely...
...realistic figure; but within the canons of comedy and melodrama he could give the illusory appearance of being a creature of flesh and blood. The purveyors of the immaculate Jew, on the other hand, produced not so much a character as a formula. Riah and his type will not bleed if you prick them...
...remarkable as its reputation. To the agonizing, centuries-old why of antiSemitism, Author Schwarz-Bart replies with a non sequitur -there'll always be a Jewry. At times this makes his novel a disconcerting cross between The Wall and a Jewish Cavalcade. His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart. Nevertheless, there are a great many moments when the book is as affecting as a wronged child's tears, and as unanswerable...