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...last time in a delicate and rare operation to remove an obstacle in the bile duct, at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic in 1953. Reports trickled back from the Caribbean that he had sometimes waked shouting in the night. At Cabinet meetings, colleagues noticed that his cheeks were hollow, his face lined, his eyes tired and lackluster. "He could still lose his temper, but at points he seemed too tired even to bother to do that," said one colleague...
When the Defense Department created the Military Air Transport Service eight years ago, the Pentagon concluded hopefully that a consolidated airlift arm would end interservice transport duplication once and for all. It was a hollow hope, soon reverberating with echoes of Navy "logistic" transports and the Air Force's own private transports independently zooming off in all directions...
While Vicky is at his funniest when he is lancing overstuffed politicians, some of his most memorable cartoons are as bit ter as his memories of Nazi persecution. Under a moving sketch of hollow-eyed Hungarian children and sorrowing old women, Vicky (whose parents were Hungarians) last month used as his punch line a quote from Soviet-controlled Radio Budapest: "Fascist and reactionary elements have been crushed...
...deportee, sent back because she was ill, reported that she had been held with 1,500 other young Hungarians in a Soviet army barracks at Uzhgorod in the Ukraine. Two young boys who escaped from a camp in the woods in the same area turned up in Budapest with hollow cheeks, and heads shaved like Russian bezprizornye (waifs...
Chicago was reborn during two drama-packed decades of engineering breakthroughs (hydraulic elevators, fireproof hollow tile, new foundation planning, and the first steel skeleton construction-the Home Insurance Building) that set the stage for the major U.S. contribution to architecture: the skyscraper. And in this new Chicago it was to be Louis Sullivan who first gave the soaring office building its logical and definitive form. To mark the tooth anniversary of Sullivan's birth, Chicago architects last week were sponsoring a dazzling roundup of his work in Chicago's Art Institute. Based largely on huge blowups from...