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...place a narrow, artificial cornea made of polymethyl methacrylate surrounded by a Teflon skirt (see diagram). The very center of the device is threaded so that it can be moved in or out to adjust its optical characteristics. And if the patient should need further major surgery, the plug can be unscrewed all the way, giving the surgeon direct access to the inside of the eyeball. As for the inside, where the vitreous humor may become clouded or lost through injury, one surgeon is using a synthetic like molasses in January...
...Belgium for "intervention" in the Congo, promised Soviet aid in the event of "imperialist aggression" against North Viet Nam and Cuba. If the Western allies pressed ahead with MLF, he warned, the Warsaw Pact nations would be forced to "consult" on countermeasures. He gave the United Nations a passing plug as a valuable "international forum," but failed to mention whether the Kremlin intended to pay its U. N. bills...
...sole common denominator, but the overall impression leaves one fact inescapably clear: the past decade has changed sculpture more than it changed in all the time between Michelangelo and Rodin. Sculpture is no longer a quintessence of form, something to be isolated, set apart and contemplated. Instead, sculpture may plug in and light up, move by machinery or breezes, invite the viewer to play with it. Says Whitney Associate Curator Edward Bryant: "Sculpture wants to come down off the pedestal and create its own environment...
Died. Harpo Marx, 75, wackiest and most wonderful of the four Marx Brothers, a master of madhouse pantomime in battered plug hat and shocking pink wig, whose endless trove of sight gags (a skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also...
...first of which, on national defense and foreign policy, will be shown this week. Richard Nixon spoke out for Goldwater last week at the Michigan Republican Convention, will open a five-week 30-state national speaking tour for him early in October. Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton will plug the ticket in eight states besides his own in 31 days of speechmaking. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton is swinging through at least a dozen states to proclaim his "wholehearted support of Goldwater and Miller...