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...cheer was restored to the room as Mrs. Khrushchev came through the door, wearing one of her fashion-setting dresses by GUM, and followed by her daughter, a vivacious, plump girl...
With raw flair, swivel-hipped sex, lurid color and fundamental rhythms. King Kong has clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road...
...show that a patient's clotting time is not unduly prolonged, they say, the surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most...
...Gum & Machine Guns. Now staying with her two sons (Jeffrey, 4, Willy, 3) in an apartment high above New York's Central Park, Brooke Hayward has much family history to live with, including divorce (her father recently married for the fifth time) and death (her mother, just over a year ago, died of an overdose of sleeping pills, and her sister, 3½ months ago, committed suicide...
With electronic swiftness, the Puck-eyed, bubbly-voiced infant became the Shirley Temple of Mexico's commercial television, adored by the country's boisterous bubble-gum set and avidly sought by manufacturers of candy, soda pop, cereal and children's medicines. Since then Janette, now 4, has piled up enough pesos to buy a small farm, where she languishes weekends with the aplomb of a Hollywood starlet, tending her flocks of ducks and chickens and her pet pig. Janette's father, Agustin Arceo, a salesman of auto lubricants, objects to all this, but is solidly outnumbered...