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...once familiar "thin it out some on top, and no machine on the sides" has given way to an operation that sometimes lasts three hours, may include everything from a permanent wave to an eyelash tint, and can cost as much as twenty bucks. Like ruffled shirt fronts and cuff links the size of poker chips, it all seems to have started in Hollywood...
...That a surgeon performing a delicate operation may work his heart as hard as any factory hand was demonstrated in ingenious research reported by Western Reserve's Dr. Herman K. Hellerstein. Investigators rigged up 39 surgeons with electrodes for continuous electrocardiograph records and a cuff for blood pressure readings, fitted the doctors with masks to monitor their oxygen consumption, and conducted a battery of other tests, both before and after the operations. Though the surgeons may have done nothing more strenuous than cutting and tying small blood vessels, they expended, on the average, as much energy as welders...
...emotional immaturity. More seriously, they accuse him of lack of judgment. The principal evidence: an incident of last August, when Merriam, on behalf of a self-exiled Iranian scholar, telephoned a State Department official, surreptitiously tape-recorded the conversation, then played the recording -which included some off-the-cuff remarks by the official about Iran's corruption - to a reporter for a local newspaper. It is specifically for this mistake that the ecclesiastical court will try him. Merriam's critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of press-agentry...
...huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption-to a reporter. Merriam apologized for his bad judgment, but the presbytery began to gather charges against...
Wouk has borrowed almost everything from Wolfe but his cuff links, although of course there is the customary title-page disclaimer. Wolfe himself is mentioned several times, and Youngblood Hawke, the fictional author, comes to fame 15 years after Wolfe's death. But the list of similarities testifies to the attentiveness of Wouk's note taking: both Wolfe and Hawke had huge physiques; Southern backgrounds; cantankerous mothers obsessed with real estate; awkward, adoring older sisters; affairs with sophisticated New York matrons 15 years older than themselves; compulsions to set down every acre of the U.S. on paper; prose...