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...crack surgeons at Boston's renowned Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic worked feverishly to save a life. Head surgeon was Dr. Amos Goy, pioneer in the heart transplant and author of Your Telltale Heart. The life was that of the world-famous Ibis, found near death yesterday beneath a snow drift in Coolidge Corners...
...MERGE CUNNINGHAM, 46, Dropped-Out from the Graham company 21 years ago because of her "psychological drift." He didn't want a mother figure, he wanted Dada instead. Ever since, he has been one jump beyond the avantgarde. He was among the first American choreographers to use musique concrète, the first to leave the structure of a ballet to chance. He rehearses in silence so that his dancers will not be influenced by the music. Themes? "Supply your own," he says. Yet for all his seeming whimsy, Cunningham is a dancer and choreographer with serious intentions...
...dramatize the way the new houseboats perform, Miami's Thunderbird Products Corp. entered one of its 40-ft. Drift-R-Cruz houseboats in the last Bahamas 500, one of the world's toughest ocean races. Despite 8-ft. seas and 25-knot winds, the Drift-R-Cruz finished the race at Freeport, one of only 16 boats in a starting field of 63 to do so. Another Drift-R-Cruz traveled along the inland waterways all the way from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Montreal's Expo 67 and then across the Great Lakes to Oshkosh...
Beyond that expatriates are expected to make their own way. Many of the younger ones drift to Toronto where the language barrier disappears and where the demand for physical labor is high. Of those who stay many go back to school at McGill and continue to work against the war, while others take to more esoteric pursuits. Midnght Magazine, with a circulation of over a million in the United States, is now written, edited, and published (complete with such fictional gems as "I was an LSD Baby") in Montreal by three college dropouts from New York...
...pulses to return to earth. This data will enable them to determine the distance from earth to a fixed point on the moon with an accuracy of 6 in., measurements that should enable scientists to learn the precise size of the moon, to analyze its motions, to confirm continental drift on the earth, and perhaps even to learn if the universe's gravitational constant is changing...