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There is no danger to their practice since SOS doctors are forbid den to see the patient in daylight hours. Instead, they charge a flat $10 per call plus the cost of medicine, then write a letter to the patient's regular doctor the next morning, informing him of the treatment given. It is all working so well that a group of Rome doctors has already arrived in Paris to study the procedure...
Paris has plenty of doctors-during daylight hours. From 8 in the evening until 8 the next morning, the doctors insist on their privacy; medical help becomes harder to find than a polite cab driver. To Parisians the scarcity has sometimes meant long hours of pain, or even death...
...Cernan groped his way back to the open hatch, Gemini circled into daylight again. Sunlight hitting the visor warmed it, but failed to evaporate the moisture. "I can see through my nose, but I can't see through my eyeballs," cracked Cernan. Then, two hours and nine minutes after he had stepped out into space, he climbed back into his hatch, panting with exhaustion...
...time for this year's Bryn Mawr undergraduates to move in, is also an exercise in bold geometry. The dormitory lies in plan as three interconnected lozenges. Inside its concrete and native-slate-sided battlements, it resembles a happy dungeon whose lofty towers admit a deluge of daylight. For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms. The results made one student gasp, "Every angle hits you," and privacy seekers are delighted. Said...
...meeting, track officials repeatedly warned against trying to steal too much ground on the closely packed first lap. Foster missed part of the meeting, and perhaps the message. To careful observers, it seemed that Foster, from his starting position on the outside of the fourth row, thought he saw daylight in the middle of the third row, tried to squeeze through, and missed. He bumped into the man ahead, starting the chain-reaction crash. Foster denied it, said that someone, "I don't know who," had faded into him, forcing him out of line, and into another...