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...Council had invited Burke and Gregory B. Stone '58, president of the HSA, to answer questions on the new combine. Many members wished to know why the University had suddenly decided to clamp down on the solicitors who, in using their rooms, were endangering the University's tax-exempt status, and who were operating without adequate insurance...
...Mosquito" (a small blood-vessel clamp...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
...film as simple and sincere as a child's tear. The actors, especially Marcelino (Pablito Calvo) and Brother Cookie (Juan Calvo), play with an easy matter-of-factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise of physical reality. And the musical score has an earthy beat and heat that might almost warm the coldest doubter to that spiritual ignition point at which miracles come to pass, and the soul knows them for what they...
...sports car club. The club was allegedly outlawed at Brown because there were non-Brown students in it, a factor which limited the University's control over it. "The students would like to have more control over their own organizations," Lewis said, "but lately the University has started to clamp down. Had the students more say in the matter, the sports car club would probably not have been removed...