Word: openings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open season on culture in Manhattan used to begin with the first stroke of a Metropolitan Opera baton. But last week, with the Met season still a fortnight away, the town was jumping with cultural high jinks to satisfy almost any taste. Among the early season successes...
...just had an election," said Cecil King, "the course is set for the next five years. Women readers particularly have had a bellyful of politics." More could be expected of the Mirror in its effort to recapture its youthful appeal. But the question that remained wide open was whether the Daily Mirror, in trying to get rid of its middle-age spread, had not exchanged it for a case of second childhood...
...soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently...
Catching On. In Visalia, Calif., riding in an open convertible during a parade, State Assemblyman Myron Frew graciously waved back at the crowd, finally realized that the wild shouts were not cheers, barely hopped out of his burning car in time...
Repairs & Shortages. In the face of tremendous demand for steel (total stocks are down to 7,000,000 tons, v. pre-strike inventories of 20 million), the industry will have onerous troubles getting back to full production. The lengthy strike caused considerable damage to open-hearth furnaces by cooling and contraction of bricks. One estimate is that some 300 of the 920 open hearths in the U.S. will need costly repairs...