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...sort of an aerial billet-doux. "HI JOHN!" it read. "THINGS ARE EVEN BETTER AT SUFFOLK DOWNS." The offer offered free admission to any fan who admitted he had seen Harvard play Northeastern, and had a ticket stub to prove...
...centers will supply numbered envelopes for drug samples. Those submitting the samples will rip off a numbered stub from the envelope. The centers will not ask for names...
...shape the character. In Hunger, nothing happens-and in that vacuum occurs the conflict between the writer's mind and the world's will. At first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable power. The shiny...
...being developed: Lockheed's CL 1026, a commercial version of the U.S. Army's rigid-rotor Cheyenne. A compound craft with a speed of 230 m.p.h. and range of 250 miles, the CL 1026 combines helicopter rotors for vertical landings and take-offs with fixed stub wings and propeller for level flight...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left-auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked...