Word: levi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WATCH (442 pp.)-Carlo Levi-Farrar, Straus & Young...
After ten minutes, Dr. Owens' hand tired and Dr. Levi Reynolds took his place, seizing the patient's heart without losing a beat. Twenty-five doctors and nurses watched in tense silence, listened to the husky, artificial breathing and the squishing of the massaged heart. After 20 minutes, Owens' hope began to falter (that is as long as most patients survive in such crises), but he relieved Reynolds and went on squeezing...
Professor Levi informed the education ministry that the bundle had "mysteriously disappeared," and Education Minister Guido Gonella rushed into action. Fearing that the questions had fallen into student hands, Gonella ordered all examinations throughout Italy halted. It took the ministry staff three days to make up a new set of questions; meanwhile, 11,200 examiners sat around marking time...
...crisis over, Professor Levi settled back into his quiet routine. Two peaceful years passed. Then, this summer, the Professor received the blow. Going over some 1948 accounts, the state auditor calculated that it had cost Italy 50 million lire ($80,000) to keep the examiners waiting. The auditor demanded that Professor Levi pay the full amount...
...year, said he, "I cannot earn so much in my life." The ministry was inclined to agree ("After all, it was an accident which could happen to anyone"). Unfortunately, said ministry officials last week, the case was out of their hands. The demand of the auditor v. Professor Levi still stood. It made no difference that the missing envelope had turned up 93 miles from Rome, its seal still unbroken...