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...Pearl River, N.Y. To create the catgut substitute, which is trade-named Dexon, chemists tested 225 synthetic compounds before they hit upon polyglycolic acid, a polymer or long-chain molecule that is chemically compatible with the human body. They spent four years taming the polymer and learning how to braid it into a multiple-strand yarn of suture size...
...full day at Whitehall I saw only one soldier, a major who had been there since 1966, who evinced any enthusiasm for what he was doing. He looked like a soldier on leave in a June Allyson Korean War movie-crew cut, perfectly pressed uniform, shiny black shoes, braid on his shoulders and ribbons on his chest. He said things like "Chow will be at 1:00 sharp, men," and "When you receive your orders, proceed to your assignment, on the double." He was an anachronism, even there...
...Beard and the Braid, Drawings of Cambridge...
...introduction to her newest collection of watercolor drawings, The Beard and the Braid, Barbara Westman promises to show us "pictures of different worlds called Cambridge." And since the book's jacket further explains that Miss Westman is herself a current resident of this city, one looks for a sympathetic treatment of the often antithetical communities that provide Cambridge with its constant tension and occasional vitality. But what do we get? Dunster House, quite early on a spring morning. The corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. The Lampoon. The Episcopal Theological School and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, inside...
Meanwhile, as for Barbara Westman, she's on a perpetual Crimson Key trip, and, if The Beard and the Braid is any indication, it doesn't look as if she's coming down for quite a spell...