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...challenge is grim. A person with no sensation in his legs or arms cannot even feel in those limbs the burn of an oven-hot radiator, the pain of a hard fall, the bed sores that breed serious infection-all bad risks that he must be alert to avoid. To stimulate circulation, avoid kidney stones and prevent his joints from locking and his bones from decalcifying, he must somehow rise to a standing position for at least an hour a day, a dizzying feat that is aided at first with a special tilt-table. The patient is also faced with...
...Premiers and other top politicians assembled at the home of a former Cabinet minister in Paris one afternoon last week. To the astonishment of most of them, the principal guest proved to be Moscow's Ambassador to France-busy, birdlike Sergei Vinogradov, one of the new Soviet breed of laughing-boy diplomats. Even more astonishing was Vinogradov's chosen topic of conversation: maintenance of French power in North Africa...
...touchy, temperamental, unpredictable animal," says Australia's David Fleay, and he should know. Called "the platypus man," Fleay is the world's leading authority on one of the world's strangest animals, and the only man who has ever made the furry, duckbilled, egg-laying protomammals breed in captivity. Last week Fleay was grooming two juvenile platypuses for shipment to New York's Bronx Zoo, and he hoped that they would travel...
...neither a writer of fan letters nor particularly interested in the sport of improving the breed of horses. However, I am compelled to extend my congratulations to TIME for its outstanding article [March 17] on Silky Sullivan...
Among the buyers flocking to Manhattan galleries is a new and growing breed: European dealers and collectors bent on buying U.S. moderns. In recent months London's venerable Arthur Tooth & Sons has bought works of Pollock, Clyfford Still, Guston and Baziotes. Rome's Tartaruga gallery picked up paintings by James Brooks, Ad Reinhardt, Donati, Marca-Relli, Rothko and Franz Kline. Still others have been shipped to Paris...