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...brightened by exploits testifying to the ingenuity and dogged work of its citizens. Canada's Dr. Wilder Penfield, one of the world's top neurosurgeons, returned last week from Red China and told of a University of Shanghai medical team that built a heart-lung machine from scratch in 18 months. When they tested it with dogs, the animals died of air bubbles in the heart. The Chinese went back to work, guided only by articles in medical journals, and three years later came up with a far better machine which has now been used in 60 successful...
Three hours later, on the other side of the East-West barrier, a West German couple enjoying an afternoon walk came upon a little boy curled up in the grass sound asleep. His face was dirt-smudged, he had lost one shoe, there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter...
Family Squabble. Like Chandigarh, Brasilia, hundreds of miles from nowhere, is being built from scratch. As the new capital of a proud nation, it also bears the overtones of a monument. Brasilia is in fact an expensive showpiece with more ingenuity than humanity; crossroads?hence traffic lights ?have been eliminated, but there are not enough parking spaces near government buildings. Housing for officials smacks of the ghetto. If you are in the Air Ministry, you not only work together all day, but you also live in the same compound with your colleagues at night...
...interrelated land uses of the surrounding areas are planned together. Even today, most big planning projects consist either of creating a new community in a relative void?such as Brasilia?or replanning part of an existing city, as with the usual urban renewal project. The prospect of planning from scratch an entire complex within a major population center rather than hundreds of miles away from it?and to do it under private rather than governmental auspices?would seem to most planners an impossible dream...
...view of the outsiders. There is a prevalence of "pornmerchants" (peddlers of pornographic literature). "Kinks" are those with highly specialized sexual aberrations. The fad for Zen among U.S. beatniks is a London import (1950). Drugs in London are mostly run by what in New York are called "scratch bums," i.e.. bums so crawling with lice that they are immune from police search. Dimly in Kops's background, public events take place: the Jews of the East End defeat Mosley's blackshirts in pitched battle, but it is all a dream. Kops alone is real to Kops. What...