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...ORLEANS. To untangle traffic jams in the city's business district, the Louisiana highway department has proposed an elevated six-lane highway that would skirt the historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...
...outer part of the transplanted human cornea can be left in place, cloudy as it is. Dr. Stone removes most of the thickness in the center, and sets in place a narrow, artificial cornea made of polymethyl methacrylate surrounded by a Teflon skirt (see diagram). The very center of the device is threaded so that it can be moved in or out to adjust its optical characteristics. And if the patient should need further major surgery, the plug can be unscrewed all the way, giving the surgeon direct access to the inside of the eyeball. As for the inside, where...
Although mobile homes are built to travel, it takes a truck to haul them (unlike smaller travel trailers, which can be towed by an ordinary auto). Their owners tend to set them on foundations, skirt them with shrubbery and even porches. Manufacturers claim that, rather than mobility, they are selling a prefabricated, delivered-to-the-site house that is easy to relocate. "We are the answer to low-cost housing," says M.H.M.A. Managing Director Edward Wilson. "The home-builders can't do much about it. They're tied. We have moved into a vacuum." The makers of mobile...
...simply that the grace of his style survives translation. His style is an indication of the clarity of his thought. His mind works with a lucidity that seems to be exclusively the gift of old or middle-aged men, men who are past the complex years when every passing skirt or newspaper article excites them. It is a beautiful simplicity, but one that exists at the expense of turbulent reality as young people know it. It cannot convey, because it does not remember, what being a child is like. The Words is not an account of an extraordinary childhood...
...week I get a luxury flat in Moscow and a beautiful country cottage. I have my car, my three fur coats, and I can travel the world whenever I want. The only thing that would attract me to Hollywood," she added demurely, hitching up her skirt for photographers like any Western starlet, "would be a really interesting part...