Word: iii
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...silver collection acquired in 1950 contains 357 pieces representing the works of about 100 British and American artists from the period of James I to George III (1603-1820). John P. Coolidge, director of the Fogg, has noted that this is "the era of greatest distinction in the art of British silversmiths...
Highway Stress. ECG changes in patients with known heart disorders were more puzzling and in some cases downright alarming, reported Dr. Thomas Killip III. A man of 20 who had no evidence of clear-cut heart disease had complained for years of occasional palpitations and extra heartbeats, even at rest. While wearing his ECG recorder he drove from New York to Princeton. What appeared to the cardiologists as dangerous bouts of nonrhythmic ventricular action occurred while the man was apparently unaware of them and doing 60 m.p.h. or more on the New Jersey Turnpike. He is now on digitalis, said...
...novel (Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour). At 60, though syphilitic and confined to a wheelchair, he is said to have married a beautiful 16-year-old girl. In his entire life, he did only one thing of importance: he begot Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)-and was not really sure he had done even that...
...went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million francs to a notorious Russian sadist who tortured her nightly until the Czar intervened. In 1860, after a last grand fling under Napoleon III, Fifi died of a stroke -while gambling...
...Bonapartism, he soon made it clear that his resemblance to Napoleon was merely nominal. He became a sort of Gallic Coolidge decorated with Continental charm, and he presided over an era of prosperous inanition that collapsed in the debacle of the Franco-Prussian war. Surrounded at Sedan, Napoleon III lost his army but preserved his charm. "I seem," he said, "to have abdicated...