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...tones and pauses were those of a man with an ineradicable scar burned on his memory. "I do not know how long I had been sleeping-it could not have been more than a few minutes--when I awoke with a start. The phone. It was ringing--again. This time it was a man's voice. 'Hello,' it said. 'Hello, Marrowitz...
Though a second Cassini daughter, Christina, was born normal in 1948, Gene's agony over the first child left a deep scar. "That was my war effort," she says...
...m.p.h. While this is no mark for a woman to aim at, Dr. Moss suggested that quick return to full activity should be better for humans than the average present-day convalescence. Patients should not fear that their wounds will tear apart; many surgeons hold that a clean scar, normally healed, is as strong after a few days as it will ever be. Added famed Presidential Surgeon Isidor S. Ravdin: there are measurable medical benefits in getting patients up sooner. Their breathing improves faster as do metabolic processes, including the most obvious-appetite...
...letters VZBV-standing for some fictional sort of "Special Project Disposition"-which cleared all roadblocks for them. During the trip Von Braun's driver fell asleep at the wheel, the car crashed, Von Braun's left arm was broken and his face gashed (he still has a scar above his lip). Von Braun and Dornberger stayed three weeks in a Bavarian mountain lodge, finally sent Von Braun's younger brother, Magnus, bicycling downhill to invite the Americans to come and capture Peenemünde's top rocketmen. (Says Magnus: "I was the youngest, I spoke...
...staffers and Chinese and Japanese scholars, Director Fuller placed the wood boy face down on an improvised operating table and made his incision with a sharp, small-bladed knife. Ultraviolet examination had shown that Golden Boy had already undergone an operation, and Fuller cut along the old, virtually imperceptible scar.* He cut carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold. After 30 minutes he lifted...