Word: petar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following a technique originally developed by another Yugoslav, Petar N. Martinovitch, she cuts a small square hole in the eggshell. Then she uses modified watchmaker's forceps to cut off two of the five parts of the undeveloped brain. The detached tissue is picked up with a suction pipette and transplanted to the head of another embryo that has been prepared by similar surgery to receive it. Finally, the hole in the second eggshell is covered with transparent material, and the egg with its patchwork embryo is replaced in the incubator...
...Jagic (1838-1923); he has just shipped off a 6-ft. bronze of St. Anthony for Oxford University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland, honoring Montenegro's 19th century poet and prince-bishop, Petar Njegos. Mestrovic's plans call for a pensive figure in grey granite above Njegos' mountaintop grave; there will be a chapel, too, and Mestrovic has already sent over the designs for approval...
...government, rambled through a speech dealing with the morals of party members, some comrades began making rude comments from the floor. Comrade Djuric tried to keep cool, but he did not succeed. "Seeing that you do not want me to go on," he shouted, "then I hereby accuse Comrade Petar Stambolic of stealing my wife." The congress was stunned: Comrade Stambolic, sitting stone-faced on the platform behind Djuric, is no less a personage than the Premier of Serbia and one of Tito's closest friends. Comrade Djuric began to sputter out his bill of particulars, until someone...
...smartly uniformed dictator had campaigned with speech and dance (see cut). With him as he cast his own vote in Belgrade was Petar Stambolic, President of Serbia. Tito voted first, dipping his fist into both boxes, then holding up his open palm. But when Stambolic put his hand in the "no" box, he let go the rubber ballot. There was momentary horror, then laughter as Stambolic sputtered that he had made a mistake. "Petar," said Tito, "you are finished." But he said it with a grin, and waited with a grin while Stambolic, with official permission, fished out his vote...