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...fluoroscopic method of diagnos ing uterine tumors has been developed by Gynecologist Ralph R. Stevenson of Washington, D.C. First, he injects a harmless dye into the patient's uterus. As he manipulates the uterus, a "watching" X-ray tube projects a picture of the organ onto a fluoroscope screen, and tumors show up as shadows. A movie camera records the picture for future reference. Main potential benefit: fewer hysterectomies done on suspicion, but no sure proof, of uterine abnormality...
...Philippe's identical twin and that Paul, switched at birth by mistake, was the son of the woman who had raised Ernstli. Wrote Mrs. Joye in her diary: "I can't weep any more, and my lair would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman." Mrs. Joye's unpretentious account is bound to give imaginative...
...rejoicing, there were some groans of dismay. Alcoa was off 11.4%, to $11,525,459. In the chemical industry, American Cyanamid's earnings went up 14%, to $6,434,475, but Union Carbide and Carbon's net slid to $21,342,676, down 19.3%, and Allied Chemical & Dye...
Citations from Luther. A trim, apple-cheeked young law student at Heidelberg 30 years ago, Red Hilde was first stained with the party dye when she met and married a fanatical Communist who was later killed by the Nazis. Red Hilde became a brandy-swigging, chain-smoking harpy and Germany's most dedicated fighter against family and religion. Appointed vice president of the Soviet zone Supreme Court, she presided over political-show trials. In three months of 1952 alone, she handed down two death sentences, eight terms of life imprisonment and 109 years at hard labor. In court...
There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...