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Framed along with the medical diploma and the other parchments of pro fessional achievement on the wall of Dr. Alan R. Grain's Washington, D.C., office hangs a reminder of a recent six-week vacation. It is no mounted marlin or spread of ten-point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
...Cocoon. A beam whose upper half had been partially cut away reminded Marisol of the Mona Lisa: as she examined the grain of the cutaway part, she thought she saw the famous smile. She painted in the face, guided by the grain, and added a pair of plaster hands around the middle of the beam. The result looks as if the Mona Lisa were about to emerge from some sort of wooden cocoon...
...Fine Grain Farmers...
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, has been stained with the familiar finish of Jewish family comedy, but the splintery grain of life still shows through...
Western railroads complain bitterly that, since so many terminals for their shipments are in the East, Eastern railroads are the major offenders. They charge that Eastern boxcar-napping has produced a shortage of cars for moving grain and lumber...