Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exedus, cold Wind in August, The Guns of Navarone, Fanny, Romanoff and Juliet, and scream of Fear have been vivisected by the CRIMSON's knife; and this often flagrantly in opposition to both the opinion of major critics and of public opinion, as expressed through box-office receipts...
...recriminations and reprisals," he writes, "it is natural that the political careerist should attach only secondary importance to the merits of issues. Instead of expertness in municipal finance or public transportation, he is more apt to acquire expertness in determining whether a given back calls for scratching or the knife...
...story reaches its horrifying climax when the hero, serving as a forward observer for his artillery unit, finally gets a chance to bring down the great hammer of the corporation behind him on the visible enemy. The ending, wherein Goodman twists the knife perhaps a bit too hard, deserves to be left unrecorded in a review except to say that the hero loses his mind and wins the Silver Star...
Died. Earle Ensign Dickson, 68, longtime employee of New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson surgical supply company who, while treating his wife's finger for a kitchen knife mishap in 1920, inadvertently invented the Band-Aid, which eventually earned his firm $30 million in annual sales and Dickson a vice-presidency; after a long illness; in New Brunswick...
Goats undergo the surgeon's knife for nerve-grafting experiments. Pigtailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, marmosets and rhesus monkeys figure in cancer and behavioral studies. Horses and sheep provide blood for scientists anxious to study rabies and staphylococcal infections. Rice rats, Mongolian gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...