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Technical Death. The man in Moscow Hospital No. 50 that day last January was Lev Davidovich Landau, 54, one of the world's greatest physicists. "Dau" was no ordinary patient, and he got no ordinary care. His friends unabashedly called for help from the free world. Canada's famed retired Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield flew from Montreal at a few hours' notice. The Moscow doctors had already opened Landau's skull, but could not be sure whether the major threat to his brain was a large blood mass or a multiplicity of hemorrhages. Should they operate further...
...South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young nation has a shortage of scholars and a Confucian reverence for learning, and young male tri thucs get autos, villas and high-paying jobs from rich parents of marriageable daughters...
...Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines a day to its 350 U.S. dealers...
...tasting food. "There are shirts available only for men boasting neck measurements of 42 or 43 centimeters," groused a Berliner with a 38-cm. neck (15 U.S.). Five-Year Plan pencil sharpeners, wrote Stenographer Ursula Hollman, produce nothing but "crooked points." Worst of all, snorted Housewife Elli Dau, is the unrationed liverwurst. "After roasting it, it is still indigestible. Even our dog shrank his nose and shook his head disapproving...
...Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended in oil droplets. And there was no doubt that Los Angeles' smog contained...