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...Frenchman named Philippe Petit, aided by a slightly fractious team of co-conspirators, sneakily managed to string a wire between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, 1350 feet above the ground. At 7:15 that morning he stepped out on the wire and danced and pranced on it for something like an hour before the cops nabbed...
...genuinely inventive, as distinct from passingly novel, Miro's images grew from the past and drew on it for their strength. His sinuous and elastic line took part of its character from Art Nouveau calligraphy, the pervasive civic style of Barcelona in his boyhood. His use of huge feet or hands as autonomous symbols of the body comes to mind at once when you see the exaggerated limbs of the Catalan Romanesque frescoes he loved and often consulted. (At one point his work
...influence on the electronic superhighway -- rests largely with Malone and Smith. When Malone told a news conference last week that ''I'm going fishing,'' Smith shot back, ''Not a chance.'' After negotiating the deal on a stranded boat, Smith knows that both men must now keep their feet planted firmly on the ground...
...organ distribution system. In 1984 it passed legislation creating a national computer bank to match organ donors to recipients. But the Reagan Administration has resisted spending the $2 million allocated for the network. Last week Senator Albert Gore, a sponsor of the legislation, blasted the Administration for dragging its feet. ''What do we tell families,'' he asked, ''that they have to go on the Phil Donahue show?'' At week's end there were happy endings in both Loma Linda and Louisville. Jesse's new heart was beating normally, and he was taken off a respirator. Baby Calvin had meanwhile found...
...suffer more?' Although it remained a common practice on both sides, I never again killed another wounded Chinese soldier.'' An even greater enemy than the Chinese was the demoralizing cold during the late fall and early winter of 1950, when temperatures dipped down to 30 degrees below zero. Sweaty feet in wet boots froze instantly; food supplies were vaguely flavored lumps of ice. The Marines kept their rifles combat ready by urinating on them, and limbered their machine guns with gasoline. A sergeant in Lieut. Colonel Raymond Davis' battalion ''reached down into the snow and pulled out of a hole...