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Next day a beaming Ford met with Houston-resident Johnny Keane, the new Yankee manager. "I brushed my teeth," said Ford, "and I think in a couple of days I'll shave." The operation, said Dr. Cooley, was a success. "The removal of these nerves permits blood to flow through collateral channels to supply the muscles of the arm itself, and causes no interference with muscular power or sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Repair of a Pitching Arm | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...play and sing for four minutes." She can perform anything she likes, so one night she played a Boccherini piece, another night Bach. At 15 minutes, during "a long pause," she is free to do whatever she wants and made dark plans to give Poet Ginsberg a much needed shave, "if he does not resist too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avant-Garde: Stuffed Bird at 48 Sharp | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...Close Shave. Even then he went into his last jump needing to come within 2 meters of the center to beat out Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Klima, 32, who put on an incredible show with an old-style chute. Not a sound could be heard from the 10,000 spectators as Fortenberry drifted down in his red, white and blue chute. Then a roar went up when the P.A. system announced his distance: 1.43 meters, for a whisker-thin victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parachuting: Dive for the Bull's-Eye | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Crossed Branches. Tshombe was determined to use Gizenga, and his considerable left-wing following, in his efforts to unify the Congo. Without giving Gizenga even enough time to shave, Tshombe put him into the back seat of a white Impala convertible. He also grabbed the onetime God-Emperor of Kasai province, Albert Kalonji, now Tshombe's Agriculture Minister, and set forth on a triumphant tour of Leopoldville's African quarter. For 21 hours, thousands of Congolese paid screaming homage to the unlikely trio, who as bitter rivals had once led the Congo's most ruinous major rebellions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The Snake Has All the Lines | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

They sing about Paper Mate's de-pen-pendible pen, they do the Pillsbury suite ("Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven"), and Jamie's is the voice of the animated Aero-Shave mermaid. They do Northwest Orient's Oriental airlines song, A.T. & T.'s longdistance elegy, and Alka-Seltzer's bel canto promise: "Relief is just a swallow away." One of their super-specialties is, "Look for the spear and get chewing enjoyment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Oratorios for Industry | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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