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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigil during which, often for months at a time, she was always within call. Freud himself was not told that examination of the removed tissues revealed cancer, although more surgery was soon necessary for "an unmistakably malignant ulcer in the hard palate which invaded ... the upper part of the lower jaw and even the cheek." First, a carotid artery was tied off, and glands beneath the upper jawbone (some of them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed. In the second stage of the operation, after slitting the lip and cheek wide open, the surgeon removed the whole upper jaw and palate...
Postulating a grey-as-ashes England where upper-class loss has not meant lower-class gain, Playwright Osborne writes of a young intellectual who looks back because he has no incentive to look ahead, and looks back in anger because he has no brighter past than future. Exulting in his wrongs rather than crusading for his rights, living in "the American age" but without sharing its rewards, Jimmy-at least on the surface-is resolutely a full-fledged Disorganization Man. But gnawing at him worse than have-not economics is the endemic English intestinal bug of class resentment. Happily, none...
...servicemen in its 160 U.S. branches, estimates that they make 40,000 calls weekly and service some 10% of all RCA television sets in U.S. homes. Relieved of the expensive burden of service, the franchised dealer can use his capital to buy in bigger lots at lower prices, and win back some of the competitive edge he has long given away to discount houses...
...really a front for Nazi Germany's I. G. Farben. But Swiss-based Interhandel and 1,500 of its stockholders proclaimed that they were not German-controlled; in a maze of litigation they tied up persistent U.S. attempts to sell off General Aniline stock to the public. U.S. lower courts and a Federal Court of Appeals turned down Interhandel's plea for a return of the stock. The loss in court was largely the Swiss government's own fault; its stiff banking laws, reflecting the Swiss financier's passion for secrecy, prevented Interhandel from opening...
Garden View. In Portishead, England, Simon Finder requested a lower tax assessment on his property, which is near a navy school, because his wife "cannot sit in the garden without provoking numerous wolf whistles and peculiar looks...