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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgeons, even more than heart surgeons, seem to have an emotional advantage in this type, of fundraising. Says Dr. Callahan: "A fellow can go to a doctor with a bellyache, get better, and say to himself, 'Hell, I might have gotten well anyway.' But with the eyes, you can't say that. If you have cataracts, you know that unless they're removed, you won't get well...
What most Asian women want are operations to round out their eyes, build European-type bridges into their noses and, especially in Viet Nam, enlarge their breasts. ("Vietnamese girls have beautiful, classic faces," says Dr. Vien, "but remove their clothing, and they look like boys with long hair.") Like hairdos, however, the styles are constantly changing. A decade ago, most Oriental clients wanted to be remade in the image of American and European movie stars. Today, the accent has shifted to a combination of Caucasian and classic Asian beauty, with eyes less rounded, noses less bridged, breasts less protruding...
ECONOMIC sanctions of the type imposed last week against Rhodesia are a relatively new weapon in the ancient art of international coercion. Not until 1935, when the League of Nations declared an international boycott against Mussolini, was the concept of full-scale economic warfare put to test. Then and since, economic sanctions have proved political duds...
...writing was as impeded as his health. Publishers recoiled from the ferocity and strangeness of his work. Printers refused to set his more gamy passages in type. The husband of one of Joyce's typists was so outraged by the manuscript of Ulysses that he set it on fire. Joyce, in turn, railed against the narrowness of the "chaste and castrated English-speaking world...
...European theater, he continually opposed the dangerous dispersion of U.S. forces on peripheral operations. He did not disguise the fact that he found hair-raising some brilliantly improvised British plans for commando-type raids on the German-held coasts of Europe. He felt that they might dissipate the grand design that culminated in the huge assault on the beachheads of Normandy. He was not a commando-minded man-and it was just as well...