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...research grow around a medical school in a major university, and Arizona is one of the few states that have no medical school, Phoenix seemed an unlikely place to start a neurological institute. But to Neurosurgeon Green, 47, it seemed ridiculous to wait for one to burgeon and bloom like a century plant. He longed for a local institute to save patients from having to travel hundreds or thousands of miles...
Extra-special guests get extra-special treatment, including the literal red carpet rolled out to greet them: three beds of tulips were planted in anticipation of the visit of The Netherlands' Queen, Juliana, thoughtfully came into bloom around her bungalow the day she arrived. A teapot was kept under 24-hour surveillance in Indonesia President Sukarno's room, should he want a spot at any time. And to a bungalow sometimes occupied by Eccentric Millionaire Howard Hughes, midnight requests for odd items-once, it was only an upside-down cake-are promptly delivered. The hotel boasts that...
Despite such general rosiness, the bloom was off a few recent Wall Street favorites: Bell & Howell blamed diversification expenses for its drop from $1.8 million to $996,000, while Brunswick Corp. attributed its 53% plunge, down to $10.7 million, to "a decline in the installations of bowling lanes...
...rest of the ladies are brought into the business mainly to give afternoon audiences something to cluck over. Shelley Winters carries on a dalliance with a little-theater director mainly to escape the boredom of life with her lummox of a husband. Claire Bloom, a nymphoholic divorcee, goes for delivery boys and straight gin. Only Glynis Johns and John Dehner, as a sort of artsy-daftsy fun couple, manage to bring a whiff of fresh air to the otherwise musky proceedings. While declaiming "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" into a tape recorder one afternoon...
...smaller than Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, and it provides no room for standees. But the opening gave New York two major concert halls for the first time in 35 years (since the demolition of Aeolian Hall), and it clearly provided a test, as Carnegie Hall Managing Director Julius Bloom noted, of "the amount of music the community can absorb." For the coming season at least, both Philharmonic Hall and Carnegie Hall are well booked, and certain orchestras-including the Philadelphia, the Leningrad Philharmonic and the Little Orchestra Society-are scheduled to play in both places...