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...found. One of his discoveries was the four-legged Mexican baby successfully operated on at a Houston hospital (TIME, June 28). He has guided another 80 people, young and old-including two blind victims of cataracts and two badly burned children-to successful hospital treatment. In his ramshackle hovel at the edge of Harlingen, the old man has even delivered two babies. Says one of Ferree's occasional volunteer assistants: "We had to blow the dust off the children to see if they were boys or girls...
...Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage of a crafty promoter named El Pipo, compiling a fortune of $8,000,000 and becoming the idol...
...universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried to every mud hovel in the world the idea that cash and credit can help men build a better life; .that capital can create choices...
...that Cleveland's Negro neighborhoods are as volatile as Watts or Harlem. Scared citizens have taken to muttering about "Communist influence." Yet the Negro community's real problem is as close as the house next door-which in much of Cleveland is as apt to be a hovel as a highrise...
Palace and hovel, ships, torches, caves, rocky passes, thunderstorms, primeval forest, a chorus of "unborn children." The whole idea for a new opera called Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) so excited Richard Strauss that he wanted to be gin composing right on the spot. That was in 1911. It was eight years, however, before the shadow became a reality, and then, despite wide critical acclaim, it was 40 years more before it was staged in the U.S. Trouble was, with all those ships and rocky passes, the technical demands of the fanciful libretto were more than...