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...built up by waves of knapsackers. New tips are communicated almost instantaneously through a transnational grapevine. Among recent intelligence reports: sleeping in London's St. James's and Green parks, though normally forbidden by police, is being tolerated this year. University cafeterias in Germany and Switzerland sell rib-sticking meals for less than a half dollar. Specially cheap flights within Europe are offered by the British Student Travel Center and other official youth organizations to full-time high school and college students who have convincing identification. Sample one-way prices: London to Paris $13.20, London to Leningrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Passage: The Knapsack Nomads | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...visiting doctors watched as members of a surgical team took their places around the operating table. With confidence born of experience, the surgeons made a vertical incision from the patient's collarbone to his diaphragm, sawed through his breastbone and then, using a framelike mechanism, spread the rib cage and exposed the pericardium, or heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Hearts, New Plumbing | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...book owes a heavy debt to Editor Asher, who reorganized the chief's verbal and written memories. Yet starting with Red Fox's recollection of learning as a child "to make a fishhook from the rib of a field mouse," the reader will rarely be aware of any white man's intruding hand. "I am not sentimental," says Red Fox, "but memories haunt me as I review scenes from the days before I was old enough to understand that all Indian things would pass away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...every Adam's rib...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Hey, What Rhymes With Heimert? | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

Furbush did not fare so well. The Cornell signal-caller left the game in the fourth quarter with torn muscles around his rib cage, and is listed as a doubtful starter for this week's game with Yale...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Frisbie Back in Crimson Lineup | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

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