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Simian Crease. Countless babies are born with genetic heart defects and in many of these cases the genetic defect has visible, external effects as well as internal ones. The most obvious example: mongolism, technically known as Down's syndrome, in which there may be heart defects along with abnormalities of the hands-flabbiness, thickness, a short fifth finger and a "simian crease" across the palm. Several other genetic, chromosomally determined defects have comparable telltale hand signs...
...Gulf. They make up for their smallness by king-size feuds over their indefinite boundaries. There has been no end of dagger duels between the inhabitants of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but last week delegations from both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will give their joint population of 150,000 a common citizenship, flag, defense force and foreign policy...
Died. Fannie Hurst, 78, one of the most popular, if not most highly acclaimed, U.S. woman authors in the past half-century; in Manhattan. To many critics she was the sob sister of American letters, and her 30 novels and countless short stories little more than glorified True Confessions pap-orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions...
...modern residential section south of the Perfume River, but the battle raged with full fury in the rubble-strewn Citadel, the early 19th century imperial fortress that holds much of Viet Nam's architectural and cultural treasure. As thousands of refugees huddled under a grey pall from countless fires, 1,000 U.S. Marines crossed the river to help the 2,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen and Marines fighting to recapture the former royal enclosure, once known as "the Forbidden City...
...rose 62% on the American Stock Exchange and went up 20% on the New York Stock Exchange. Trouble is, the exchanges and the back offices of brokerage firms have not expanded and automated fast enough to keep up with the increase. In the resulting snarl of tape and paper, countless buyers have either received the wrong confirmation slips and stock certificates or failed to receive any at all. As they struggle to straighten out the mess, brokers earning upward of $50,000 a year have had to spend as much time doing the work of $80-a-week stock clerks...