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...display like so many sausages; a pause for worship in Stockholm with a lady priest; a visit to a Tokyo operating room where almond eyes are reshaped into English walnuts; a look at a European beauty clinic where faces are skinned and new complexions are grown from scratch; a visit to an Australian cemetery where the white-clad members of the Sporting Widows' Association play a jolly game of bowls beside their husbands' graves. There is the inevitable birth of a baby, a particularly untidy sequence accompanied by one of the most agonizing sound tracks ever recorded...
...with older trains by straddling the steel rails on their own special track. But Transaco feels that the Métro system has its biggest future in entirely new transportation systems being planned in many of the world's growing cities, where authorities can start from scratch to design for the rubber-tired trains...
Starting almost from scratch, the School has built up in the last ten years close contact with the local school systems. An internship program to give Ed School students a term of practice teaching was set up in 1954, and in order to give them additional experience the six-week Harvard-Newton Summer School was begun...
Today more than 100,000 Americans are wearing a lifesaving bracelet designed to prevent such accidents. It was made originally for Linda Collins of Turlock, Calif., who was so hypersensitive to tetanus antitoxin serum that the tiny amount used in a scratch test* after she cut her finger one day in 1956 made her collapse in convulsions. Her father, Surgeon Marion Collins, figured that a full dose of antitoxin would have killed Linda; he decided that for future protection his daughter should wear a dog tag proclaiming her allergy. Linda talked him into making the tag into a silver bracelet...
...like a horse and everyone's hell's boring except me. Being a deb was easy because my daddy's a noble lord. Did I mention that? And I did the beatniks too -in Chelsea. Beatniks grunt and look sick and don't wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says the best way to keep from being raped by a weed is carry a pepper shaker in your...