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Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...
...operating theater there was a quartet for each twin: senior surgeon and assisting resident, anesthesiologist and scrub nurse. Standing by were a pediatrician to direct replacement of blood and other fluids, a clinical pathologist, a cardiologist with a heart-lung machine, a bone-and-joint surgeon...
...scene in the operating theater of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was typical of the best in U.S. medicine. Carefully scrubbed surgeons and nurses in sterile caps, masks, gowns and gloves glided around the table with smooth efficiency. The senior scrub nurse knew the senior surgeon's methods so well that he rarely had to ask for an instrument. A laconic New Englander, he uttered hardly a word. One thing that set this operation apart: in the theater, also sterile-garbed, was Microbiologist Ruth B. Kundsin, who took air samples every few minutes to test for harmful...
...army headquarters in Kabylia, De Gaulle saw for himself the difficulties facing 25,000 French troops as they scour the thick scrub of mountain sides for rebels. He watched helicopters swoop low over a 3,400-square-mile waste of mountains "as full of holes as a Gruyère cheese," as one officer put it, and foot soldiers trudge up and down steep rocky inclines searching caves for the more than 10,000 terrorists hidden in the region...