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...doesn't take any earphones, at least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
...Administration schedule called for action, during the special session, only on the France-Italy-Austria stopgap aid bill, and possibly the Army funds bill. G.O.P. Senate Boss Bob Taft saw some hope, "if faint," that the entire legislation could be finished by Christmas...
...Bishop of Birmingham listened to his Archbishop's denunciation last week with a faint smile. "There is no question of my resigning my bishopric," he told a reporter afterwards. Dr. Fisher plans to take no further action. But his rebuke of the free-thinking Bishop served a wider purpose: to remind all easy-going Anglicans that 1) what a man believes is as important as what he does, and 2) the Apostles' Creed means what it says, even if some of those who recite it don't think...
...become obsessed by the fear of death. Sometimes he imagined that he was losing his mind. He complained of a continuous ringing in his left ear, and his nose felt numb. He had no appetite, couldn't sleep, and occasionally felt as if he were about to faint...
...world's best tempera technicians. His realistic landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the texture of almost anything in nature-from the barnacles on a beached boat to the faint down on a woman's neck. Says he: "I love the fine, eye-burning work involved. . . A friend tells me that my work is immaculate in everything but conception...