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...itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist since 1952, has apparently been trained to write this...
...them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first tour, has maintained an even weight of about 175 throughout the campaign...
...When a burn victim has so little healthy skin left that it is difficult to find enough for grafting, it may be stretched by mincing it in a Waring Blendor and applying it with a spray, reported San Francisco's Drs. John S. Najarian and Horace J. McCorkle...
...Thayer (Ted) Watkins, 18. of Denver. The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Ted worked his way summers as a dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
...Just walk through that door to the rear of the stage and wait for directions," said the round man at the side entrance of the Opera House as he checked our identification. Mr. Nordus, with a spray of flags across the lapel of his tails that made him look like a distinguished veteran of the Pacific campaign rather than the conductor of the Ballet Orchestra, stepped aside as we filed in. He was in the process of greeting Boston friends or relatives in a flurry of Danish, ending up with "I'll see you later...