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...everything out, the thoughtful gift is obvious: cuff links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three...
...time approached for his return to Paris, Ike's nostalgia bubbled over in an off-the-cuff speech to a small crowd of SHAPE personnel and their families. Said he: "I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young-homesickness. I must acknowledge that after 40 years of wearing a uniform it would be strange if I felt quite as natural with my civilian hat as I did with my military cap. And I want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going...
...ORGANIZATION MAN, by William H. Whyte Jr. A thoughtful and critical study of the growing numbers of Americans who tend to live, work, think and play within the framework of the large corporations that employ them. No off-the-cuff call for nonconformity for its own sake, the book (a surprise bestseller) spells out the need for genius and just plain individuality to speak in their own voices...
...gadget, which the Russians have demonstrated in both the U.S. and Europe, is an intricate but efficient machine, 5 in. long. Provided that the blood vessel to be rejoined has free ends about ¾ in. long, the machine grasps the ends, turns back a piece to make a cuff on each, then joins the cuffs with tantalum wire staples. The inside bore of the vessel is not reduced, permitting full blood flow. The surgeon can do the stapling in one minute...
Katzenbach devoted the opening moments of his talk to an off-the-cuff discussion of America's present position in the missile program race. "We're behind because of our own stupidity, our own narrow-mindedness, our own close-fisted-ness," he charged...