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Nonetheless, top honors of the show undeniably went to four Viennese men from something called the Institute for Direct Art. Black-shirted Hermann Nitsch gave a demonstration of his popular Blutorgie (blood orgy), in which he tore apart the cadaver of a freshly slain lamb, also gave a learned lecture on the "liberation of violent urges through catharsis." His colleagues, Otto Miihl and Gunter Brus, held an audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head...
...head, then disappeared as he fell toward Jackie on his left. The first shot was not fatal; the second was. The time between the two bullets' impact was between 4.8 and 5.6 seconds, said the commission. Connally, too, had been badly hurt: a bullet slammed into his back, tore across a rib and out his chest, shattered his right wrist and entered his left thigh...
Injuries have played a part, of course. Pitcher Whitey Ford underwent surgery last month for a blocked artery in his shoulder. Shortstop Ruben Amaro tore his knee ligaments in the first week of the season. Mickey Mantle has missed 42 games with assorted aches and pains, and Roger Maris has been playing for three months with a torn leg muscle so painful that he cannot run out the infield grounders he now hits so consistently. Still, Yankee teams have been hard hit before: the 1949 club, for example, survived a succession of 71 separate injuries and won a pennant...
...English-Polynesian starlet named Laya Raki tore off her bikini top for photographers at the Venice Film Festival last week, but that was mostly because she was only an English-Polynesian starlet named Laya Raki and it was the Venice Film Festival...
Studying the ads submitted, Lufthansa itself rejected several phrases, including one claiming that "German mechanics love their nuts and bolts more than their wives." The public rejected more of the ads. From all parts of the world suddenly came protesting letters. One U.S. reader tore out an ad with a reference to "fanatical thoroughness" and sent it to Lufthansa's Cologne headquarters with the marginal notation, "i.e., Eichmann." Another, objecting to the claim that Germans do everything with "painful thoroughness," commented, "particularly gas chambers." An Israeli sent in a six-page, handwritten letter of criticism. From London...