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...been a contenduh" imitations over the years, so you might as well take in the real thing. Marlon Brando predictably dominates this tale of corruption on the docks of Hoboken; his amoral, streetwise Terry Malone will always be mentioned in the same breath with his Stanley Kowalski and Don Vita. The portrayal of Brando's relationship with Eva Marie-Saint's paragon of prudery rankles a bit, sugary in a few embarrassing moments. Yet Elia Kazan's otherwise slick direction salvages the plot, wisely allowing Brando to showcase his still developing talents and heart-melting looks. Studded with a brilliant...
...robot blood-pressure machine -or sphygmomanometer-that has sharply reduced Mrs. Williams' dependence on her physician is one of the latest marvels of medical technology. Introduced in 1976 by Vita-Stat Inc. of Tierra Verde, Fla., and now produced by other firms as well, the coin-operated gadgets have appeared in some 1,300 shopping malls, drug and department stores, factories and hospital lobbies across the country. They are not only cheap and fast -a reading takes a little more than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director...
...miniature "brain"-tiny silicon chips or microprocessors. Programmed to recognize the noises, the microprocessors not only instruct the machine when to pump up and deflate the cuff, but also determine the exact time for taking the two readings. If there are any disturbing outside sounds or arm movements, Vita-Stat's machine flashes three zeros on the screen and refunds the customer's money...
Faced with a tough government austerity program and a period of inevitable economic hardship, millions of Italians have fallen back on a uniquely Latin approach to the problem of how to preserve the vestiges of their fast disappearing dolce vita. With wage gains quickly eroded by runaway inflation and jobs in any case difficult to find, many workers have simply quit the official system to work in the booming secret economy that has come to be known as il lavoro nero, the labor black market...
Though he still considers Laetrile "an out-and-out fraud," De-Vita allows that "testing it may be more ethical, more beneficial and less harmful to the public than what is happening...