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With his fox terrier Sweikof, Grutzius camped out in a circus wagon, sleeping on the floor (for all the furniture had been sold), scrounging food from local citizens who themselves were too poor to spare much. In the winter, the dwarf kept warm by getting drunk on harsh red wine, some of which he shared with Sweikof, and by burning dried grapevines in his stove...
...many U.S. hospitals are antiquated, inefficient and unsightly, from the scurvy brick of their exteriors to the .scaly boilers of the steam-heating plants. In crowded corridors the wagon bearing a sheeted corpse may collide with another carrying the patients' lunches. In most wards, with 20 or more beds, the quiet and relaxation essential to recovery are impossible, and even private rooms are drab, fitfully heated and ill-ventilated. There are some gleaming exceptions, among them the Clinical Center of the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles, the Jefferson Medical College...
...host of gadgets, e.g., dumbwaiters to carry equipment and supplies from floor to floor and pneumatic tubes big enough so that they can carry medical records, medicines and small instruments. Food is served from a central kitchen, put in individual meal packs and delivered from a heated wagon...
Reflections at Sea. On a seagoing day (his first after winning the Nobel Prize), Hemingway's big Buick station wagon bounces through the suburbs along the Havana wharfsides by 9 a.m. The Pilar is a hardy, 42-foot craft with two Chrysler engines, built to Hemingway's specifications 20 years ago. Hemingway carefully supervises the provisioning of the Pilar's iceboxes for a hot day afloat-several brands of beer for his guest and the mate, some chilled tequila for Skipper Hemingway. He consults with his mate, an agile, creased Canary Islander named Gregorio Fuentes. Then Hemingway...
...hope you'll forgive me for being personal, but I feel you're my friends and its all right to talk personally to your friends. it hasn't always been so good. I'm not ashamed to say that George and I used to pull a coaster-wagon to get relief groceries in the depression...Nowadays at home when I see so many good things to cat, I finish everything on the table." A gray-haired women sighed and cooed, "Just like...