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...that "we Japanese are more skillful with our hands than Westerners." Last week, with his abdomen tense and sore, he knew that the eagerly hoped-for day had arrived. Staggering into an operating room, he got a nurse to sterilize his midriff and hands, help him into a sterile smock and mask. Then he clambered onto the operating table. When Chief Surgeon Mikio Takahashi protested, Dr. Ohmura replied: "I have only one appendix; it's my only chance...
Each dress is reviewed by the patron himself, sitting in a straight chair, clad in a long white butcher's smock. With a long, gold-tipped cane, Dior points and criticizes, orders a bow changed, a seam moved. Scattered through the collection are the five or six models which are called, because they may prove to be disasters, the "Trafalgars"-the dresses which are the most extreme and will make headlines or covers in the fashion magazines. Dior deliberately plans them to startle and shock, thinks of them as trial straws in the wind, to be developed...
...chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay, an anomaly among welfare states, manages to get along without a personal income...
...phony doctor (in real life a member of Actors Equity) slips into a white smock, faces the camera, and the biggest gasoline-torch medicine show in history has begun. A cigarette is soothing to the T-Zone. A miracle pill will start the natural flow of liver bile. Try a certain elixir for worn-out blood-and a toothpaste for a brave new cavity-free world...
...four chairs, shouldered into a sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions: "How is the season so far?" and "How are the stores doing?"; then "Is there plenty of employment?" Jim Corbett, who picks up most of the talk of the island...