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...among the work gangs. "Citizens are not welcoming the Russian and Chinese assistance with the correct spirit," admitted Pyongyang radio a couple of weeks ago. "They have failed to establish close relations with the friendly technical personnel . . ." The Communists are, however, well accustomed to putting up with that inevitable discomfort of colonialism, the dark hostility of the governed...
...ether mask and morphine stage of 20 years ago. Today, during critical operations, e.g., inside the heart, as many as eight different painkillers may be administered to ease the patient's lot and the surgeon's task. Even in minor surgery, drugs are used lavishly to prevent discomfort. But even the best of the new techniques carry their own hazards. Last week two top Boston anesthesia experts, Henry K. Beecher and Donald Todd, laid down evidence that modern anesthesia is killing not only pain but is still killing a shockingly high percentage of patients...
...walls of Paris' Maeght Gallery last week, nudes floated over the Champs-Elysees, an ass crouched impaled on the spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall...
While not meant to be pleasant, exams should at least be seen. Yet this year, ten shifts of students are scheduled to descend to Fogg Large Lecture Room for a squinting chance of seeing their exams. Its wretched lighting and discomfort have been a source of complaint for years, but Fogg still rates as one of the Administration's favorite testing grounds...
...attendant discomfort and difficulty, the rain (which was torrential and damaging only in scattered areas) brought jubilation to the dust bowl. "It was a joy just to lie in bed listening [to it]," wrote Frank Grimes, the aged editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News. "If you had been just a little younger, you'd have climbed out of bed and rushed into the yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged...