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Actually, there has never been anything like it, period. In recent weeks, the U.S. auto industry has been speeding along at better than its record 1955 clip. October sales of 728,552 cars were the highest ever for a single month, and the average of 27,753 cars sold each day in the middle ten days of November set still another record...
Also slated to see plenty of action for Harvard are sophomores Mere McClung and Denny Lynch. Lyncy was one of the big guns for the Crimson last season; he topped the 200-point mark in scoring and sank free throws at an 82 per cent clip. Last year Harvard finished its campaign with a 10-14 record and seventh place in the Ivy League...
...picture really worth all that? Not really. But for 120 of its 179 minutes. The Bounty wallops along at a merry clip and proves splendidly seeworthy. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) and Lieutenant Christian (Brando), bound for Tahiti to pick up a cargo of breadfruit seedlings, commence a duel of wills as soon as they put to sea. When the captain gives a seaman 24 cuts of the cat for calling him a thief, the lieutenant reasonably inquires: "If one punishes a man so severely for a minor infraction, what does one do for a serious offense?" When the captain turns...
...arterial traffic rotary ("circle of Willis"), is a major operation. It involves sawing through and lifting a flap of skull and moving the brain out of the way. The commonest method of treatment has been to tie off the aneurysm at its stem with a tiny silver clip, or close the artery with clips on each side of the stem. Dr. Gallagher was not satisfied with these methods because merely touching the aneurysm to attach a clip might cause it to burst with disastrous results. To destroy the aneurysm with no risk of bleeding, he wanted to clot...
...well to enthusiastic Brazilians who decided that they could switch successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled at a six-a-day clip and learning that Brazil had no parts suppliers, dismissed the manufacturing project with the blunt comment: "You're nuts...