Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though I must admit Mr. Trow first impressed me with his command of the filthy background literature, I also admire his avoiding the traditional Poonie embarrassment--parodies that read like the real thing. Not that his parody succeeds, but Trow has his moments. He advises Penny Pig. "Just once, just once try something JUST A LITTLE different. Try, for instance, wearing one of those divine new topless bathing suits to work. This will force you to do something with that bosom of yours. Trying painting them green, to match your earrings, of course." If you've read Gurley Brown, that...
Professor Paul Payrau of Paris has been doing just that, he told a World Congress on the Cornea in Washington. First, of course, he tried grafting corneas from animal to animal. He got mixed results, but enough encouragement to try the technique on human patients. Pig corneas were no good because after transplantation they became opaque. But corneas from a large variety of dogs have remained transparent in 50% of Dr. Payrau's cases. Size is unimportant since only a segment of the human cornea is replaced. Dogs' eyes even have an advantage over humans...
They know where to look: anybody can buy U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey maps that pinpoint the site and depth of hundreds of known wrecks. All that the charts do not tell the treasure hunter is whether the ship that went down was hauling pig iron or a golden argosy...
...cities to handle the 100,000 campesinos trucked in for the occasion. Streets were hung with posters and gaily colored banners. All day and night, reported TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold, streets were clogged with peasants in gay carnival hats, sipping a glass of beer or munching hungrily on roast-pig sandwiches...
...sell second-rate strawberries for half again as much as first-rate ones cost in Greenwich Village, and men can buy clothing for 9? to $1.99 in "dump shops." Everywhere is the smell of cooking grease and the sizzle from all-night fry shops that sell porgie fish or pig's knuckles or chitlins (hog intestines...