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...future, Teleguide will extend its service to two other hitherto unused New York channels. One will be reserved for special broadcasting of conventions and exhibitions; the other will offer short foreign-language programs telling visitors from abroad how to enjoy themselves in New York. Not covered by FCC regulations, Teleguide will restrict its advertising to 2½ minutes for each 15 minutes of air time. Telad's advertising is subliminally inserted into the running chatter. Sample: the announcer, listing ten Broadway plays, pauses and expands on the one whose producers are paying for the time...
...consisted of assorted internal malformations in newborn babies, plus an upsurge in one hitherto rare condition: phocomelia or "seal limbs." so called because the hands and feet are like flippers, attached close to the body with little or no arm or leg. Hamburg University's Pediatrician Widukind Lenz. 43. began to suspect Contergan because he found that in many cases the mothers had taken it late in the second month of pregnancy, when the fetus' limbs are forming...
...most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose has been unclear. It has hitherto fallen to butchers, marketing the thymus of the lamb and calf as the "neck sweetbread," to give the gland its only obvious usefulness. Now a British cancer researcher...
Self-expression and originality are unquestionably accepted as good qualities in the theater. But a play that expresses the author's personal preoccupations in a hitherto unexplored way is not automatically a good one. Witness the modern French theatre: creative, introspective, and narrow...
...America halfback abandoned pursuit of the ball for pursuit of his tormentor, and vengefully set about choking the aggressiveness out of him. But though spectators decorously booed Dawkins' unsportsmanlike lapse, there was wide rejoicing over the post-match shandy (a concoction of beer and lemonade) that the hitherto irreproachable Yank had at last displayed some evidence of human frailty...