Word: pandora
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...Bayard Swope directed traffic, Baroness Robert de Rothschild served as a chauffeur. // Betty Grable turned up in Manhattan with a sweater her publicity handlers swore was knitted for her by the R.A.F. // Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sent panda-hunters to Tibet to replace the Bronx Zoo's deceased Pandora. It is her gesture of thanks to United China Relief...
...Until Pandora, in the person of Adolf Hitler, pried open the Russian box, its contents were a general mystery. But now that the lid is off, all sorts of surprises have popped...
...last February Pandora, now age 3, began to toy with her Pablum mash. Gradually she sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...
Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
...medicos then performed a pneumo-encephalomyelogram, in which spinal fluid is withdrawn, replaced with oxygen little by little; then took X-rays. In such X-rays the oxygen outlines the brain ventricles, indicates the presence of growths. But Pandora's brain showed none. The famed specialists scratched their heads, brooded, figured, studied smears on slides. Next afternoon, the sick panda, far from the Western Heavens of Szechwan, the nine sacred mountains, the flying horses and the golden monkeys and the citizens with tails, slept quietly under a drug when death, as it must to all animals, came to Pandora...