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Instant Reprisals. Not to mention Huk terrorism, which is the tie that binds together all the other Huk influences. The Huk organization is small, dedicated and tightly disciplined. Led by Faustino Delmundo, alias Commander Sumulong, it has purposely kept down its size so as not to attract the main force attention of the Philippine military. The terrorist arm of the movement comprises no more than 160 killers (supported by another 150 local armed guerrillas), who roam the central Luzon countryside in bands of three or four, meting out instant reprisals to anyone who dares defy Huk orders. In the past...
Bonnet had two main ideas for his team: exercise and the egg. Until then, the prevailing form featured a skis-together, head-up posture. Bonnet reasoned that I'oeuf, a little used, head-down, feet-apart crouch, would give less aerodynamic drag and a lower center of gravity, thus making a skier faster and less likely to fall. The trouble was that it required fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand...
With the patient's circulatory system connected to a pump-oxygenator, the surgeon opened the heart and found that the septum (wall) between the main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed...
...decline. Today, the city's richest businessmen still walk to work rather than buy automobiles; only recently did the last of them abandon the electricity-pinching practice of using white sails to reflect sunlight into their musty offices. Until a new auto strada is completed in 1970, the main stretch of road along the tourist-heavy coastal route between Genoa and the French frontier will remain the two lane Via Aurelia, built by the ancient Romans. Whenever somebody suggests expanding the roads to Italy's interior, Genoese businessmen invariably ask: "Why? Just to let people from Milan come...
Genoa's main asset is its naturally endowed harbor-and the Genoese even let that fall into disrepair. In the 1930s, the city qualified as Southern Europe's leading port only because Benito Mussolini deliberately diverted shipping from Naples and Venice to keep Genoa's tonnage ahead of archrival Marseille. Once Mussolini was dis patched, Genoa's troubles emerged for all to see. Hemmed in by the Apennines with little room to expand, its harbor area is a cramped compound of 1,000-year-old streets and hopelessly antiquated facilities. Operations are further hampered by some...