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...days, on a low-salt but otherwise normal diet. "That's pretty fast," says Dr. William Bormes, "but we wanted the blood as fresh as possible." Only four days after her third "donation," Mrs. Mauldin went on the operating table. Dr. Bormes opened her chest, slipped a tiny, fingertip knife into her heart, and opened the leaves of the balky valve. The only transfused blood Mrs. Mauldin got was her own three pints. Said she later: "When I came in here, I was thinking to myself, 'I won't get to raise my children...
...extremely happy with it," says Mrs. Cesarini, a practical nurse. "Before, I couldn't grasp objects with my left hand-my fingers seemed frozen. Now I can touch every fingertip on that hand with my thumb...
...ultra-highspeed modern dental drills, and is driven by compressed air. The air power is a big safety factor; it permits surgeons to use the drill around explosive anesthetics without fear of sparks. But whereas most dental drills are controlled by a foot brake, the new model has a fingertip on-off control. It can turn up to 100,000 revolutions per minute and come to a dead stop in a fraction of a second. Its carbide burs will drill a neat hole or, if moved sideways, work like a power saw. The burs develop no heat as they drill...
...Crespin clearly had ideas of her own. "We have met an impasse," Crespin said, then went onstage to offer a compromise interpretation of the role that even Lehmann had to admire. True to her introspective notion of Strauss's aging princess, Crespin sang the first act at fingertip touch, hiding her immense voice behind a melancholy that was queenly and cool. Only in the final act did she display the full range of her vocal power; when she did, she reached the Met's distant chairs with astonishing clarity...
...fetters of body and spirit. He tells her how he was locked out of his church for "fornication and heresy-in the same week." His revenge: loveless lecheries with teen-age girls, one of whom (Lane Bradbury) claws at his door with embarrassing anguish. Hannah tells him of pathetic fingertip brushes with love. Touched by their mutual need, Shannon asks if they might not make a go of life together. It is Hannah's kindness to be cruel. "Accept whatever situation you cannot improve," she has told him, and releases him to the zesty affections of the Widow Faulk...