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...Reed General Hospital was Colonel Jack W. Passmore, the Army's top eye surgeon. He had taken charge of Jimmy's case two weeks earlier when the young son of an Air Force colonel had injured himself by banging on a .22-cal. blank cartridge with a hammer. Some thing from the explosion had slashed through the cornea (outer covering) of Jimmy's eye, through the dark-brown iris, through the lens and the gelatinous filler behind it, until it had come to rest just short of the retina, the screen at the back of the eyeball...
...HAMMER THROW...
FORD re-creates the past with immense prehistoric monsters (bodies by Disney) that clash in battle and sound like dueling trailer trucks. Presumably, Ford mechanics sneak in at night to hammer out the dents on the dinosaurs. There is also a colony of cartoon-caricatured cavemen, all looking like early ancestors of the boy on the cover of Mad Magazine...
...years ago, it became evident that the phosphate would run out before long. Nauru's three concessionaires and the U.N., of which the island is a trusteeship, rushed solicitously to the rescue. Last year Australia took the natives' head chief, Hammer deRoburt, to look over Australia's Curtis Island off the Queensland coast, offered to underwrite a $22.4 million resettlement of the Nauruans there. Curtis Island is larger than Nauru, has abundant supplies of fish offshore, and its wildlife would even permit the Nauruans to pursue their favorite pastime of taming noddies and frigate birds...
...Sponges. The three traditional methods of making graphic-arts plates are: scoring smooth copper with a burin for intaglio engraving, carving in wood with a gouge for relief printing, and drawing on stone with grease crayon for lithography. Now, graphic artists print from almost anything almost any way. Sid Hammer, 38, produces his blocks by melting vinyl, as plain as kitchen flooring, with a hot incising iron. "My graphics," says he, "have the sensation of handwriting on a sponge." The handwriting ends up on the wall for less than $100. In Hawaii recently, an art student produced an edition...