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...creditable collection of Minie balls, spent shells, uniform buttons, and other bits and pieces of unidentifiable metal left behind by Yankee soldiers during the Battle of Atlanta. However, the prize of his collection was a relic of an earlier war-an arrowhead crudely fashioned from a piece of quartz crystal. Somehow, our way sounds like more...
...political crystal-gazing is a hazardous occupation and it is possible that none of the two factors mentioned above may ever come into operation. Also, it is quite conceivable that the Congress may fail to reform itself to the extent required. Only time will show what happens. For the present, much more pressing is the necessity to examine some of the other aspects of the recent elections. For example, the rise of regional parties on the plank of regional demands--the D.M.K. is the most prominent example--has already prompted several foreign observers to conclude that India is poised...
...surprises in the March issue, out next week, include Ferrari-inspired shoes that are red, black, green and yellow, and have wheels and a red "2" painted on their sides. Also hard: a "prancesuit" made up of a melon crepe tunic and thigh-tight knee pants with blue crystal trim and blue shoes to match. The soft(expectable) surprise comes in the form of Paris spring fashions, from Dior's white hunting jacket to St. Laurent's daytime version of "le smoking...
...which might have given the evening more intellectual relish, a sort of Pirandello flavor. In a one-act opener called White Lies, Shaffer tries to be wise rather than clever about lovers and lovelessness. As an impoverished fortuneteller, Geraldine Page performs with feline grace, but Shaffer's dramatic crystal ball is murky. Fortunately, the evening is redeemed by Black Comedy's dancing waves of mirth...
Organs & Cells. If organs are removed from an animal's body, they can be flushed out with antifreeze solutions to reduce the ice-crystal damage. Kidneys treated in this way have survived 24 hours of freezing and then recovered part, but not all, of their function when reimplanted in the same animal...