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...Russia's delegate, impassive Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, should give more study to "our plan for general and complete disarmament." Exasperated, U.S. Delegate Eaton rose to complain that Zorin had used that phrase "for 135 times since the start of the conference. Let's quit hollow words and get to real steps and measures." Zorin's reply was surprisingly mild, and the West was heartened when the Poles and Czechs politely asked for more details of the Western plan...
Under Pressure. At 49, Cousteau looks as if he might be either an esthete or an ascetic, and he is somewhere in between. His face, hollow-cheeked, cleft by the lean curve of an aristocratic nose and scoured by furrows, might have been carved by the sea itself. His body is gnarled. "My!" said one fluttery female admirer, "have you been shrunk by pressure...
...Hold it-use every ounce of your strength," said Dr. Frances Hellebrandt. Marilyn squirmed in her seat, her arm straining against the weight. As floodlights flicked on automatically and a preset camera recorded her travail, Marilyn bent her head to the right, tucked her chin into the hollow of her shoulder. (Though Marilyn did not know it, there is sound scientific basis for easing tension this way. She hit upon it naturally. Some subjects never learn it.) But no matter how hard she strained her right forearm's flexor muscle, the chain began to reel out link by link...
Refugees. In many respects the filibuster (or "sustained educational campaign," as one Southerner put it) was as hollow as Southern hopes; civil rights legislation-whether it carries the imprint of the Administration, or Northern Democrats or both-is inevitable in this session, and the Southerners, from Georgia's fiercely eloquent Richard Russell on down, know it. Even so, Dick Russell, as general of the delaying forces, set up his well-organized willful minority, selecting three teams of six men each who could spell each other in relays of pairs, with each pair holding the floor for four hours...
...surgeons have used different approaches to the heart: at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, surgeons wired a 67-year-old man by slipping a thin electrical cable into an incision in his neck and working it through a vein into the heart. In some cases, surgeons have plunged a hollow needle through the chest wall and into the heart itself; when a fine wire, passed through the needle, is in place, they withdraw the needle...