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Verbal Notes. Hartman uses a pair of tape recorders for much of his studying, taping lectures on one and dictating notes to himself on the other. "It is quicker and easier to learn from tape than to rely on Braille," he explains. His only Braille texts are a medical dictionary and a notebook of emergency procedures. He has learned anatomy by touch, sticking his hands into cadavers to learn the shape, location and feel of the body's organs. To master histology he listens to classmates' descriptions of cells seen through a microscope...
...long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin at his subtlest is pretty elephantine), that these and other people's interaction is building towards a catastrophe: the destruction of Buon Yun and the American soldiers it welcomed at the hands of an NLF assault team and a miscalculating American bomber pilot...
...even breathes half-sarcastically, jaded beyond belief. Here it's not a world-wise jaded: the landscape of his face is as dissipated as the roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical. He's got class with a seventies lack of it. But the even, keel is only...
...Some cities that are particularly close to refineries and oilfields, like Houston, or have better than average distribution faculties, like Atlanta, tend to get petroleum supplies quicker than less well-located metropolitan areas. The Midwest is well supplied by pipelines from Canada...
...flamboyance on offense is only part of his value to the Nets. He leads the team in two vital defensive categories, blocked shots and steals. The latter statistic is usually the pride of smaller, supposedly quicker guards. Yet Erving is the second leading pilferer in the A.B.A. The Nets are a very young team (average age: 24), and they lost their first nine games this season while trying to knit their new talent. Erving quickly provided the necessary needles, sacrificing his scoring (five points per game fewer than last season) in order to set up plays for teammates...