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...brainpans, suggesting that they may have entirely distinct nervous systems and bloodstreams. If so, separating them should be far easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will be studied for months by the same medical team that operated on the Brodies...
...motto ("Don't Let the Fellows Wear You Down) is perhaps less than delicate. But for that matter, so is the band. The niceties of nuance and proprieties of gentlemanly behavior are for more sedate organizations. Once, in a typically caustic vein at a typically ragged rehearsal, Holmes announced: "This has got to come to a screeching halt." He may well have expected the bandsmen to stop screeching, but as for a half, well, in spite of money troubles. Yale brickbats, and fatiguing greyhound bus trips,--the Sprit of the Harvard Bend Goes On and On.MALCOLM H. HOLMES...
...goddesses, lack that final subtlety of modeling which makes such statues live." Retorted the New Statesman & Nation, "They are too subtle for the superficial glance. His achievement . . . is his remarkable patience . . . that allows him time to discover his subject's undramatic drama." Art News & Review noted that a "vein of somewhat folky humor persists [but] the greatest quality [is] deep calm, giving a sense of a pastoral order in mankind...
...same vein as Stump's statement was the U.S. order withdrawing four of the six divisions guarding the containment line in Korea. The U.S. could have reacted to the Indo-China debacle by freezing its strength in Korea. Instead, it now proceeded on the premise that what deters the Reds from further aggression is the general U.S. power of retaliation, not the policeman on a particular corner...
Other businessmen were talking in an equally optimistic vein. In Manhattan, a Dun & Bradstreet survey of 1,126 executives showed that some 48% expect an increase in net sales over 1953 during 1954's fourth quarter; only 22% forecast a sales drop. On Wall Street, the stock market reflected the businessmen's optimism. Aircraft stocks, which have led the market with a 75% rise in the past six months, climbed higher still. Six months ago, many a trader wondered if the Dow-Jones industrial average would ever hit 300. Last week the industrials pushed up 2.87 points...