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...operation watcher," she explained to the New York Times. It started when Shirley was 14, visiting an army hospital in Oregon. "A boy asked me to be with him while his leg was amputated. I held his hand the entire time, and since then have watched many operations. Gall bladders are the best-the colors are gorgeous...
...Modern Art and Whitney museums each snapped up one of the beasts from the tech stylist's first one-man show at the Stable Gallery. "For the artist to ignore the possibilities of technology would be utter folly," says Seawright, and he seems to have ignored few. His Watcher took 6½ months to produce; its tiny lights flicker in programmed sequences, photocell-tipped antennas bob about like tentacles, seeking the lights, and a speaker tweets and squeals to the pulsing of the circuitry...
...ambassador to Moscow, succeeding Foy Kohler, Johnson picked Llewellyn E. Thompson, 62, one of the best working Sovietologists in Government. "Tommy" Thompson has spent nine years in the Soviet Union, five of them as ambassador-longer than any other American envoy -speaks fluent Russian, and has been a Kremlin watcher since 1933, when President Roosevelt first recognized the Bolshevist regime...
...have had the most dazzling of Hollywood careers, but-as any late, late television watcher can attest -it was certainly durable. In the course of 50 movies, Ronald Wilson Reagan almost invariably played the grinning gallant, the fall guy who winds up heartbroken, dead broke or plain dead. In King's Row, he lost his legs; in Santa Fe Trail and Dark Victory, bigger stars got the girl. In Hellcats of the Navy, he wound up taking a submarine on a suicidal mission; as George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory...
...entices the octogenarians of the Himalayas, delights beach bathers throughout the world, has become a varsity sport in the armed services, and in 1964 became an official Olympic sport. The news media thrive on the spectator interests in the sports world, but it is the doer rather than the watcher who is the real sportsman...