Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's forthcoming official biography...
DECEMBER--Alfred Velluci proposes that Memorial Church be converted into a basketball court as a Christmas present for Cambridge children. "After all its the right size and shape, and it's always empty," he says...
...flight back to Washington, Johnson pondered the problems that history had bequeathed to him. "I sat in the plane," he recently recalled, "and pictured it more or less as if something had happened to the pilot who was flying us back. We were very much in the same shape as if he fell at the controls and one of our boys had to walk up there and bring the plane in, flying at 700 m.p.h., with no plans showing how long the runways were, with no maps, no notes...
Many eye surgeons have learned to correct detachment of the retina by putting a plastic girdle around the eyeball and squeezing it back into shape. And Dr. Stone has implanted plastic tubes in the eyes of glaucoma patients at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to remove the accumulation of fluid that causes high pressure inside the eyeball-and eventually blindness...
...replace relatively insensitive tissues and those that are easy to get at, plastic surgeons have a wide choice of materials. They carve Silastic sponge to the shape of a human ear and cover it with skin grafts. For men who have undergone castration because of cancer, there are artificial testicles of the same or a similar material. Artificial breasts are now made of a soft silicone-rubber sack that holds a silicone gel, and they have a backing of Dacron for attachment to the chest wall...