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...fingers where he made an incision across the knuckles, cut through joint tissue, and removed the heads of the hand bones. Then he moved down to the finger joints where he cut out more thickened tissue, removed some ligaments, as well as the shortened tendon fibers which cause swan-neck deformity...
Whatever the source of its products, Prisunic usually sells them well below other popular brands, intends eventually to remove even the few outside brands it now permits on its shelves. The chain's own Scotch, Black Swan, sells for $4.50 a fifth v. $5.60 for Johnnie Walker Red Label. To undersell Nescafe instant coffee (43?-46?), Prisunic imported a Dutch blend, slapped on its own label and a 40? price tag. "Our aim," says General Manager Jacques Gueden, 52, "is the same as that of American discount houses-to undersell small-store competitors...
...restrained for Italians, too aristocratic for Americans, too Viennese for the French. Last week though, a French soprano named Régine Crespin sang the final Marschallin of her first season at the Metropolitan Opera. It was the best at the Met since Lotte Lehmann's swan song 16 years...
...bathtub, Jack explains: "Yes, well, let me make a judgment about that. Now the uh following toys have been appropriated for tub use: 18 PT boats, three uh Yogi Bear uh beach balls, two Howdy Doody plastic uh bouncing clowns, a ball of uh Silly Putty and a rubber swan. Now, let me make a uh judgment on the dispersal of these items. Nine of the PT boats, two of the Yogi Bear uh beach balls, the uh ball of Silly Putty belong to uh Caroline. Nine of the PT boats, one of the Yogi uh Bear uh beach balls...
Thus, in his bitter political swan song, California's defeated Republican candidate for Governor lifted to national attention a hitherto obscure political reporter for the Los Angeles Times. No man desired the distinction less. For all his 35 years at the game, Carl Greenberg, 54, has aspired to be no more than he is: a competent newsman, working diligently at his craft. Nixon's accolade left him in the uncomfortable position of a man who has, for no good reason, been irreparably separated from his peers. "I feel like calling the Times and telling them to mail...