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...have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word. And it was small wonder last week, when 2,500 sawbones swarmed into Miami Beach for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, that what interested them most was a new and versatile drill saw that promised to ease their bone-sawing work even if it would not erase their nickname...
Larkin has a poet's reverence for the small detail that shapes a scene or character. Thrust into a dentist's chair, a terrified girl imagines that the drill hovering above her has the "shape of a great hooded bird." And his small scope is deceptive. His characters are afraid of life only because they are in need of love. Their peevishness, spitefulness and British reserve all mask an inner anguish, conceal layers of loneliness that Larkin peels off with precision...
Comfort & Facts. The preschool child is too young to be comforted by reason. Just as it does no good to insist "There are no ghosts," it is not enough to say, "Don't be foolish-this is a drill, not an air raid." What seems to help most at this age, says Dr. Escalona, is a bedtime story, an extra cookie, a night light, and the knowledge that mother is not far away...
...largest construction companies. Its building crews are responsible for dozens of the burgeoning brood of refineries and petrochemical plants that have sprung up in the South and Southwest, also handled the reconstruction of Guam after World War II. Recently, Brown & Root snagged the prestigious $40 million Mohole contract to drill through the earth's crust, and it has just started construction of NASA's $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Its average yearly business: $300 million...
...gave the Crimson its 10 to 6 margin. Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes as Harvard triumphed 13-0. The strong Crimson line bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing, ion by Fritz Drill...