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...claimed thousands of diaries. A postal official at Chicago's Merchandise Mart, where the company had a drop box, could recall no such mail's ever arriving, and officials at the warehouse where current diaries were purported to be stored said that they had considered the account dormant since...
...parents and involves the metabolism of minute amounts of copper. As recently as 1960, medical textbooks stated: "The course of the disease is inexorably downhill if untreated." Most baffling is the fact that the inherited defect may either produce severe illness within the first year of life, or lie dormant like a slowly ticking time bomb for as long as 40 years. In the A.M.A. Journal last week, two New York City doctors reported that they have developed a way to detect the defect before any illness has developed, when diet and drug treatment have the best chance to postpone...
...point is that the rules are easier to follow inside Audton than outside. Under the ministrations of Warden Goad, Filmore discovers that each hour is filled with well-managed activity. His muscle tone responds to early rising and hard work; his dormant mind is stimulated by his cerebral fellow cons. "Here," says one eloquently, "here, there is near perfection. The rules cover everything, from your sex life to your shoelaces...
...been persistently tapped off-Broadway. Off-Broadway can also take substantial credit for spurring interest in two modern greats, Eugene O'Neill and Bertolt Brecht. When off-Broadway's greatly gifted Jose Quintero directed The Iceman Cometh, in May 1956, O'Neill's reputation was dormant. The remarkable six-year run of The Threepenny Opera at the Theater de Lys helped to detonate a Brecht boomlet that is finally exploding on Broadway with the March arrival of Brecht's best play, Mother Courage...
When a long-dormant volcano spewed molten rock over their windswept Atlantic island in October 1961, the 260 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha were rescued and brought to never-had-it-so-good Britain. Last week, after a year's exposure to the packaged joys of the affluent society, the hardy, forthright islanders decided that they had never had it so bad. In a secret ballot to decide whether or not they should return to a primitive, precarious existence on their isolated island, adult Tristan islanders voted overwhelmingly, 148 to 5, to return home...