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Harelip Repairs. Soon Millard was operating on cleft-lip youngsters from all over Korea, often in freezing temperatures, with no electric power and an assistant holding a flashlight. The Millard simplified technique produced a more natural appearance than others previously used for unilateral cleft lip; it was so successful that after Millard reported his results, it was widely adopted and now accounts for a major proportion of all one-side harelip repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cleft-Lip Craft | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Cries for Mama. The men gave Ray a flashlight, then sealed off the entry hole with two steel plates. The air quickly grew fetid and hot, and suffocation became a real possibility. "There was a lot of crying and calling for Mama," Ray recalled afterward. Desperate, Ray and the seven boys piled up mattresses and, with great effort, pushed away the steel plates. Sixteen hours after first entering the pit, they squeezed out. Two hundred yards away they found the watchman, who alerted the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Escape from an Earthen Cell | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Lying in the dark he could find no peace until he got out of bed and by the light of a small flashlight, walked the halls of the White House to the place where Woodrow Wilson's portrait hung. He found something soothing in the act of touching Wilson's picture; he could sleep again...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Bedtime Story | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...followed her testimony. At one point a tear appeared on her mother's cheek. Patty described how four days after her capture, DeFreeze had forced her to make a tape that included the passage "Mom, Dad, I'm okay." DeFreeze had gone to the closet with a flashlight and a tape recorder and told her what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...going to be disappointed. Those who expect pornorgraphy are certainly in for a let down, and those who anticipate belly laughs will be only slightly more satisfied. Jack Lemmon's misadventure in a Harvard Square parking lot is good for a prolonged giggle (the attendant was approaching with a flashlight and Lemmon said, "Someone's coming," to which the woman replied, "Not yet"), but the net effect of these monologues is unmistakably depressing...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Guilt, Trivia and a Prolonged Giggle | 10/15/1975 | See Source »

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