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...grisly series of tableaux. There lay a wounded woman with a tiny baby, just old enough to sit, screaming beside her. On another stretcher lay a young woman with two bullet holes in her back, freshly wounded and brought into Tinh Hoi for medical treatment. Torches illuminated a chamber where 26 corpses lay under Buddhist flags and swarms of flies. But there was no sign of a rebel spokesman or of the promised announcement. As the minutes passed and night fell outside, the newsmen's suspicions mounted. As Correspondents Prager and McWhirter told...
With the air tube and electrical leads hooked up, Mrs. Ceraso's circulation took a new turn. When her left ventricle contracted, it propelled most of its blood, against negligible resistance, into the pump's Silastic chamber. The electrical impulse signaling this event then triggered the pump, and a gush of oxygen into the outer Fiberglas chamber squeezed the blood out of the Silastic core into the aorta. In the process, it pushed the blood along with much more force than Mrs. Ceraso's enlarged and enfeebled left ventricle could have mustered unaided. To reduce the risk...
...largest car-ferry system, with 23 ships, 19 terminals and annual revenues of $15 million. With business booming, Bennett intends to add another ship to the run. Alaskans, who estimate that at least half the passengers will continue on to their state, are already planning to put local Chamber of Commerce bureaus on 24-hour duty to help find accommodations for the new surge of tourists...
...audience on two sides. The Ex's seat-wagons are placed directly in front of the two open sides, so that the audience becomes in effect the two missing walls, and The Pelican thereby achieves intimacy and involves the audience. The conditions are close to ideal for Strindberg's "chamber play" (as in chamber music): the play was written for a theatre which seated 160, and the Ex seats about 120; the austere set even looks Swedish...
...then to avoid inflation? Last week men who presumably know business best, 543 executives at the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, voted by an 18-to-l ratio to urge a slash in federal spending instead of a tax rise...