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...three, there was little to look forward to; for big things in union labor, they were through. But tough, ruthless Jimmy Hoffa was getting ready to take the big step to ultimate power among the Teamsters. His mouth hardened into a grim line; his accustomed arrogance softened to a lighter hauteur; he stiffened his muscle-packed (5 ft. 5½ in., 170 lb.) frame and snapped: "I have been as clean as anybody else in the labor movement. What I have done was in keeping with the membership's authority vested...
...them to relax muscles by blocking the transmission of impulses from nerves, but stopping well short of the Indians' desired end point-where the muscles of breathing are denied signals from the brain's respiratory center, causing death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal operations because they cut down the activity of muscles around the gut. They facilitate the passing of a tube through the windpipe for artificial respiration. They are useful in some nervous disorders, in controlling convulsions from shock treatments, and have been tried...
...Navy has authorized one nuclear missile cruiser (the U.S.S. Long Beach). A nuclear carrier is in the works, and five more are contemplated. Nuclear destroyers will be difficult because their reactors will have to be lighter than any known today, but their ultimate success is considered sure. They will stay at sea indefinitely, while conventional types must be refueled every week...
...vacations in Bermuda and Nassau this year discovered the virtues of the man's straw hat, enthusiastically spread the fad through whole campuses-and delighted straw hat manufacturers. "We were tired of the big straw hats of last year," says one girl, "so we simply picked a smaller, lighter hat. It happened...
...Unlike Cerquetti, slim, dark-haired Soprano Clara Petrella, 32, has built her success as much on sheer dramatic ability as on her voice. Her voice is lyric rather than dramatic, and at La Scala she has become one of the foremost performers of contemporary music. At her best in lighter roles, she has recently turned histrionic, now longs to sing Minnie in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West...