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After an unsuccessful attempt to smother the flames with a pillow, Grainger kicked the can of fluid into the fireplace and rang the alarm. "I expected the can to explode with a sort of napalm effect," he said...
Andrew R. Grainger '69, the only occupant present at the outbreak, said that a defective can of charcoal lighter fluid caused the blaze. "While I was cooking a steak, the can of fluid ignited at the side of the fireplace. The apparent cause was a vapor leak...
...however, much of the natural gas is held in relatively nonporous rock that prevents the flow of all but small quantities of gas into wells, making them uneconmical to drill and operate. Engineers have increased the flow of these wells by fracturing the surrounding rock-eit|er by forcing fluid under high pressure! into the well or by underground nitroglycerin explosions. But the resulting increased flow of gas through the fractures relatively short lived and in some leases is not worth the additional cost...
...doctors still had more drugs in reserve to beat back the rejection mechanism, and they stepped up his cobalt-60 treatments. Washkansky's liver shrank to nearer normal size; Denise's heart and his kidneys worked so well together that he lost 20 Ibs. of edema fluid...
Edlestein has also developed a highly original cutting style: in most of the important sequences, he tends to cut between shots which are related in sense and overall composition, but which do not develop directly out of each other with conventional, fluid continuity. He will frequently interrupt a functional cut with a brief emblematic or detail (memorable among such cuts is a phone conversation in which images of the two speakers are interspersed with rapid pans along fence-like telephone wires) and this liberated cutting style allows him to use disparate materials--still photographs, newspaper headlines, etc.--with ease...