Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest advance in ulcer surgery is still simpler, less mutilating, and therefore "more elegant" by Dr. Moore's definition. This consists of "pyloroplasty," or widening the gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or "sphincter" (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched, then the slit is closed at right angles. Such operations (there are several variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that...
Shots & Sketches. The hero is a boy scout Faustus who has voluntarily put aside his all-powerful magic ring of alchemized gold. But he happens to be working as a tutor to the Princess Margaret in the Irish castle of the lusty Queen Katherine. The Queen has become ravenous with desire for her dead husband, who has turned into a vampire. She arranges the theft of Faustus' ring and vamps the vampire, turning him back temporarily into human flesh...
Mephistopheles shows up, dressed almost exactly like Faustus, indicating to the slow-witted that good and evil are close kin. They plot to recover the ring -Mephistopheles wants Faustus to be vastly powerful; Faustus wants to prevent the ring from being used with disastrous results to mankind. For those who miss this one, the playbill features snapshots of nuclear explosions and sketches of old alchemy labs...
...Meanwhile, the earthy queen is in a state of sexual shell shock, as who wouldn't be after making love to a part-time vampire? Faustus has the vampire put to death by impalement and recovers his ring. Then master alchemists appear before him (old Ben Jonson characters like Linus Pauling) to urge that he destroy the ring and save the world. He does-by plunging with it into the fires of Hell, where he ends up playing cards with the Devil...
...Chicago's poor every two weeks. In summer, they provide free vacations for twelve older people each month at a pleasant cottage on Delavan Lake, Wisconsin. Their ideal of a truly welcome gift for a penniless old woman is not a bundle of used clothing but a diamond ring on her silver wedding anniversary...