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Five such parables constitute this new book by Isak Dinesen (real name: Baroness Karen Blixen). All are pleasant, intriguing, and in the trollish Scandinavian vein of Danish Author Dinesen's Winter...
...chronically plagued by a shortage of currency or a lack of goods that meet Western specifications. Though Britain's trade with Communist countries, for example, has more than doubled in the past seven years, it is still only 2.6% of total U.K. exports. In a more realistic vein, the London Times warned: "When the Communists talk about increasing trade, they are as often concerned with the political effect of their words as with any goods they may want to buy." Added a Ruhr industrialist: "The demand for Russian caviar is not unlimited in Germany, and it is not always...
...right pulmonary artery (see diagram) at its beginning near the ventricle, carried the free end around to a hole, half an inch across, cut in the side of the superior vena cava, and stitched it in, like a plumber's elbow joint. Then he tied off the vein near its normal entrance to the auricle. In this way, 30% to 40% of Kent's venous blood (the proportion carried by the superior vena cava) bypassed the right heart completely, went directly to the lungs for oxygenation, then into the left heart. In the common ventricle it was still...
Shortly after dawn, the patient was hoisted to a crude table in his home near the Yugoslav village of Krasic. Surgeon Branislav Bogicevic examined the dangerous clot in his right leg, decided to tie off the affected vein without removing the thrombus. At week's end, Surgeon Bogicevic reported that his patient, maligned, maltreated Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, was out of danger...
...trading day in the exchange's history. On the floor, traders surged around trading posts, rushed madly from booth to booth waving order slips and shouting at the top of their lungs. The heavy trading was touched off by reports of a rich drill hole in a copper vein discovered more than a fortnight ago in the Mattagami area of Quebec by New Hosco Mines Ltd., a smalltime mining outfit. Shares of New Hosco, a longtime penny stock that sold for 17? three weeks ago, soared as high as $7.25-and took other stocks with it. At week...