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...career simply by wading in, accepting three punches for the chance to land one roundhouse of his own. "I don't have any particular ability," he admitted. "I rely on condition." But the punishment he took showed in his ravaged face-the cauliflowered ears, the network of tiny scars across his forehead and cheeks, the huge mounds of scar tissue that bulged above his eyes...
...brain. Aneurysms are like blisters in tubeless tires: at a weak spot in its wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops a warning leak that causes a severe headache and stiff neck, and a test will then show blood in the spinal fluid. Among...
...doll stares blindly at a Nevelson-like collection of wooden chair legs and newel posts, one of which supports an abandoned bird's nest, while a paper ball-the kind that used to pop out of old-fashioned valentines-dangles above. Flaking paint, wood grain, wormhole and lathe scar are meticulously recorded in sharp focus, yet there is an eerie, aching loneliness about the scene that no camera could ever convey. In Lady Fair the mood is pure fun. with its symbolic scrap of lace, a well-gnawed spare rib. and a blonde lock pinned on a brocade background...
George Cabot Lodge is the unquestioned favorite for the Republican nomination, but will face a very steep up-hill battle against the Democratic candidate. Unless Kennedy and McCormack badly scar each other at the convention and in the primary, Lodge can expect to remain a former Assistant Secretary of Labor for some time to come...
...point but sharp edges. At the umpire's "Los!" (go), they slash away-again, again, again-steel against steel for 15 minutes. The noise, astonishingly, is deafening. When steel slashes flesh, a doctor rushes in for repairs. Everyone happily retires to toast the prize: a fine Schmiss, or scar, the old Teutonic varsity letter. Not since the 1930s has student swordplay been so fashionable in Germany. About 40% of all male students at West Germany's 18 universities now belong to 800 fraternities, including about 380 that practice the dangerous art of "the sharp weapon...