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...selected to lead the country out of chaos. "Brethren," said Sukarno, "I as President and Supreme Commander order you all to sit in ministerial council." And sit they did. But before the week was out, there were mounting signs that Sukarno's crackling start might end in a damp sputter...
...scholars' work. Many were called home, and the manuscripts themselves were packed away in 36 cases and locked up in the Ottoman Bank at Amman, Jordan, from which they were returned to Jerusalem for study only last month-some of them slightly moldy and spotted from the damp vault. (Complete photographs of the manuscript material exist, but direct examination is necessary to the delicate process of matching and fitting fragments...
Many a plastic surgeon thumbing through a handsome, two-volume medical work last week was startled to find, under the unscientific heading, "Oops!", this homely advice: "Once a graft has been cut, it should be folded, wrapped in a damp gauze and put in a safe place until time for its application. Too often in its trip around the theatre it gets thrown in the wastebucket or dropped on the floor. Pick it up. wash it and get on with the job. It happens in the best of clinics!" And, as the kickoff to a chapter entitled "Flap Happy," there...
...uncomfortable as they have been, the present low-20-degree weather will keep snow on the ground, to hamper post-exam travelling. Students will note Winter's clever timing in bringing record low temperature days as Harvard returned from the holidays, and now in assuring difficult exit from cold, damp Cambridge...
They had to be discreet. Minutes after making their last appearance, the entire Hungarian gymnast team was whisked away by friends to a safe and secret hiding place. Some of the championship water poloists were still damp from a workout in the pool-and still mad over their encounter with the Russians (see SPORT)-when they, too, were hurried...