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...undemocratic last week. Philip J. D'Arrigo, a Westchester County dentist, paid $48,000 last year for an acre of land adjacent to Carey's summer home on Shelter Island at the end of Long Island. Said D'Arrigo, 47: "I hope to hang up my drill in 15 years, live out there and go fishing." But when the dentist began constructing his 2½-story dream house 165 ft. away from Carey's, the state police certified that it posed a security hazard to the Governor. D'Arrigo refused a state offer...
Buckley's winner to Marshall highlighted what was far from the senior signal-caller's best performance. Much like last week against William and Mary, Buckley worked the two-minute drill to perfection, but followed his five-interception effort last week with three more this Saturday...
Assisted by some 20 people, Gershuni first made an incision in the elephant's tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12-in.-long steel pin; this served as an anchor for the heavy hoof-to-knee cast. Three and a half hours later Mandavu was brought back to consciousness. Within GARRISON minutes she lumbered to her feet, apparently no worse for the experience...
Signs of the American trade connection are in many places. In Shanghai, ships of the American President Line unload bales of American raw cotton. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, preparations are under way for an oil drill bit plant to be built under a $50 million contract with the Hughes Tool Co. In the coastal Fujian province, the state-owned Amoy Cigarette Co. will soon be producing Camels under an agreement with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. In Peking, Bank of America will open a branch in a two-story brick building that was part of the U.S. legation...
...ship's chorus of Oklahoma! and other Rodgers and Hammerstein hits. Suddenly, around 6 a.m. bells rang, and Captain Cornelius Wabeke ordered: "Abandon ship!" With few exceptions, passengers and crew members went in an orderly fashion to their assigned lifeboats, as they had done during a practice drill three days earlier...