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...however, quickly led him to more pleasing speculations. "Feed," thought Karandas happily. He was on his way to the Biology Labs to meet a follow countryman for dinner. "Curries," he mused, and last himself in a devotional contemplation of those dishes. Gene, suddenly, were his visions of the cramped, plaster-cracked room he had just left, and his rankling grudge against universities in particular and Americans in general allowed itself to be soothed and coddled...
...letters a year and his income to something like $150,000. He drives as if every race were his last-with a raw fury that borders on desperation. He has pressed wildly on with hot oil spraying in his face, raced with his leg in a plaster cast, sped around curves while nearly blinded by glass fragments in his eyes. He cannot even remember how many crashes he has survived...
MODERN Living Writer Ben Hall claims to have developed "one of the first cases of World's Fair Feet of 1962-before the thing even opened" as he knocked around the Seattle Fair last weekend, wandering between packing cases, wet plaster walls and flying paintbrushes. He found the pre-opening atmosphere exhilarating, and concluded that Seattleites "love the idea of the fair, but hate the thought of strangers' finding what a nice neck of the woods they live in. They hope people won't come out and take them over." Hall is a world's fair...
...years Gross lived near a number of lumberyards, but when the yards began to make way for new housing projects, he found good wood hard to come by. Today he works in plaster, which is later cast in bronze. Where before his figures took life from their materials, they now get it directly from the modeler's fingers...
...planes coming over the trees headed toward the house. That sort of thing you get sensitive about." Even Griggs's wife, who is so hard of hearing that "you had to virtually shout in her ear," was awakened by the planes' vibrations. Windows rattled; plaster fell in the living and dining rooms. Running from one side of the house to another, Lawyer Griggs chased after the planes to note their markings so that he could substantiate his complaints with the airlines...