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...Specimen. Dr. Edwin A. Taylor of La Jolla diagnoses the knobs differently. He noted that in the early stages the knobs were movable and had a little bounce, so he expected them to be filled with fluid that could be drawn off to hasten recovery. When he cut into the knobs, though, he found cords of pearly white material, and he was afraid that he might have hit a misplaced tendon or nerve. Eventually, he decided that the white strands were an overgrowth of connective tissue, the deeper, fibrous layer between skin and bone. This might be more serious than...
...Swiss banks hold $3,000 worth of riches for each Swiss inhabitant, but their greatest treasure is the anonymous sanctuary of numbered accounts. Only two or three bank officers usually know the true identity of the depositors. The bankers also assign false names to all such depositors (obtaining a specimen signature of the alias) so that nobody can present a lucky string of numbers to a teller and walk away with a secret fortune. Any banker who violates what the law calls "his duty to observe silence or professional secrecy" faces a fine...
...bridegroom (Brian Murray) is an intellectually bemused boy with Beethoven in his inner ear and a blue-collar father around his neck. Father (Donald Wolfit) is a deliciously unimpaired specimen of Cro-Magnon man who recalls that his father "always said that if a thing was natural, you'd see animals doing it. I've yet to see a horse reading a book...
...drilling theories to a test; they constructed a 2-in. cylindrical drill bit of molybdenum, and to their surprise their very first demonstration was a success. With a 5-kw. generator, they heated the face of the bit to 2,190°F, then forced it down against a specimen of hard basalt rock. Like a hot pick thrusting through ice, the bit ate into the rock at the rate of 50 ft. a day-a rate that the experimenters figured could be doubled by heating the bit to a still higher temperature and by putting a little more pressure...
...child buyer (Lester Rawlins) purchases highly intelligent "specimens" for United Lymphomoloid, a vast penumbra of a corporation with top-secret government contracts and a futuristic 50-year program for "leaving the earth." If the parents are willing to sell their child, the "specimen" goes through a memory-deleting process and submits to a chilling form of surgery that "ties off" the five senses. He is then on a par with his peers-computers...