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...rating of any daytime show. Boasts Wood: "We have made more people conscious of what's in America than anything else on the air." By its very nature, WWW is in love with big effects. But some of its best moments have been small ones. The New Orleans Mardi gras parade seemed lifeless compared to the efforts of a few deaf children in Baltimore to comprehend the rhythms of music through their fingertips. Sometimes, the nation does not look quite the way the TVmen think it should. For a 30-second shot in Weekiwachee, WWW moved in and planted...
...days and two nights the steel-bands played on without pause. In the late hours of mardi gras, bone-weary celebrants sat on curbstones, heads in arms, waiting for transportation home. But still, here and there, a clanking, humming steel-band could be heard, and its dancing members still wore expressions that seemed to say: this is our day, and this is the music that truly belongs to us. When midnight struck, the music stopped, and Trinidad's steelbands vanished from the streets for another year...
Patients by Air. Ochsner, actually a pleasant and sophisticated man and no hell-roarer, soon showed his skill as teacher, surgeon and organizer. Between fishing trips and serving as king of the Mardi Gras, he found time to establish the Ochsner Clinic, which he built into a "Mayos' of the South," and a hospital operated by the Ochsner Foundation. The hospital is so modern that it has its own heliport, largely to receive casualties from tidewater oil rigs. Along the way, Lung Surgeon Alton Ochsner has become a leader in the medicosurgical fight against cigarette smoking as a cause...
...true nature of the Men in Green, however, is not to be seen in frozen Mardi Gras and consumption of Bonded Kentucky. Anti-Freeze. Rather the Dartmouth spirit comes from those monastic days in the middle of the week...
...such affairs of state that Pérez Jiménez drew his countrymen's attention. Amid Cabinet meetings and the signing of decrees, they noted, the President worked in an astonishing schedule of extracurricular activities. He went to a garden party, an auto race and a pre-Mardi Gras fiesta, where he awarded the queen's prize. He tried out -a new rowboat and pitched the first ball of the Caribbean baseball tourney. He went to the touring Folies Bergère of Paris, whose nude cuties have been a scandalous success in Caracas. At week...