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...volunteers live in a group of twelve cottages facing Salisbury Plain. Paired off two to a cottage, they have meals delivered at the door, enjoy a free pint of beer or cider daily, newspapers, magazines, unlimited long-distance telephone service, a nine-hole golf links. Only restriction: guests must keep a 30-yard distance from everyone but their cottage partners. Visitors are not allowed unless heavily masked...
Earmarked. In Rome, Italy, Romano Pandolfi, sick & tired of being teased about his big ears, grabbed a razor, trimmed them down to pint size...
Divorced. Elizabeth Brooke ("Princess Pearl"), 33, second daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, former Raja of Sarawak (he ceded his 50,000-square-mile territory to Great Britain seven months ago); by Harry ("Little Hotcha Muchacha") Roy, 46, pint-sized British bandleader (he composed their wedding march, Sarawaki); after twelve years of marriage, two children ; in London...
...called for a blood donor, drew a pint of carefully analyzed Rh negative blood and replaced part of the plasma with a salt solution to reduce the danger of clotting. Then he wheeled the infant into the operating room. He thrust a hollow needle into a vein in its left ankle, began to drip in the donor's blood. When he had dripped in 100 cc, a safe margin, he nicked the radial artery in the baby's right wrist, attached a tube, let the baby's blood drain out. To keep it flowing freely, he injected...
...slowly flushed clear of Rh blood (though a little remained, mixed with the donor's). Dr. Wiener let the flow continue until the concentration at the outgoing end was 90% new blood; in effect he drained and refilled the baby twice. (A newborn infant has about half a pint of blood.) After two and a half hours he handed back to the mother a healthy, rosy child...