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...Russia is to complete its long leap into modernity. Though almost certainly faced with lower growth rates than it was able to maintain during the flank-speed recovery period of the '50s, its rulers can still keep the Soviet economy humming if they will vigorously seek a more comfortable and colorful life for its people. If, as seems likely, a consumer economy is to be its destination rather than-or even en route to-a Marxist Elysium, Russia will first have to overhaul and expand its archaic marketing and distribution systems. Almost certainly
...about childhood. The long middle passage, which flashes back to the days of St. Agatha's, catalogues the small terrors and large thoughts of preadolescence with delicate insight. It could stand on its own as a finely wrought novella, and probably should, since the contemporary "comic" passages that flank it are flabby by comparison...
...there are some victories soon over the Red guerrillas. In the third month after the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the Viet Cong still reign supreme in 13 of the country's 43 provinces. The Communists control half of Long An Province on Saigon's southern flank (see map). From the fifth-floor terrace bar of the city's Majestic Hotel, idlers can view both bikini-clad girls water-skiing on the Saigon River and, in the distance, puffs of smoke rising from clashes between government and Viet Cong guerrilla patrols...
...week's end, the famed Denver transplant team put a baboon's kidneys in the flank of a 40-year-old man. His condition: "Satisfactory...
Across the street in Charity Hospital, other surgeons made an incision in Davis' right flank. They implanted the chimp's ureters in Davis' bladder, and made artery and vein connections. Within ten minutes after the hookup, Adam's kidneys began to purify Davis' blood and produce urine...