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>Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Nov. 13, 1972 | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

Raymond Chandler knew the territory well, Nathanael West wrote of it brilliantly in The Day of the Locust, but no one has recently taken the measure of the neon void with such savage precision as Joan Didion. Play It As It Lays was a novel about a young actress, Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nothing Applies | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

George Hamlin's direction is tight. Although the play begins slowly, it picks up in the second act, and the remaining five acts move forward with precision. The final tableau scene, requiring most of the cast to freeze in position, 'works:' if it hadn't it would have been a...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Inspector General | 11/11/1972 | See Source »

THE lights went out in Viet Nam on a quiet evening in December 1946. Ho Chi Minh, bitterly realizing that his months of negotiation for independence from the French had failed, ordered that the electrical plants all over the country be mined; at 8 o'clock that night nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: They Made a Revolution | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

The choir was admirable for its good diction, pitch, and attack. The sopranos handled the difficult syncopations at the end of the first piece with precision. It seemed unlikely for the quality of Mem Church music to rise still higher after last year's triumphant Schuetz festival; but last Sunday...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Retreat From Indifference | 10/31/1972 | See Source »

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