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...Veterinary Medicine). Dr. McBride's clinic, where Missy's operation took place, is a tasteful, red brick colonial building staffed by four veterinarians, a practical nurse, half a dozen kennel men, plus office help. The waiting room is no different from that of any other modern, well-kept hospital. In examining and operating rooms, sterile techniques are used. The McBride clinic is part of a notable trend: in the last 20 years the medical care of pets has become virtually indistinguishable from that of their owners. It is often just as good, scientifically, and it often costs...
...years of hot and cold war that followed. Stored by the Germans in some 50 separate underground caches, the paintings were seized by the invading Russians in 1945. tossed helter-skelter into open trucks for the trip to Moscow. For the next decade their whereabouts was a well-kept Soviet secret. Not until the present Soviet leaders staged a red-carpet display of their booty last year at Moscow's Pushkin Museum (TIME, Sept. 12), before handing the collection back to the East Germans, did the Western world know how many-if any-of the museum's most...
...fertile in places, arid in others, baked by the summer sun and blown by the winter wind. Here wheat is grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...
...will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. How is the increase in leisure time and the extension in life expectancy to be spent? Will it be for the achievement of man's better aspirations or his degradation to the level of a well-fed, well-kept slave of an all-powerful state? "Indeed, merely to state that question sharply reminds us that in these days and in the years ahead the need for philosophers and theologians parallels the need for scientists and engineers . . . In this country we emphasize both liberal and practical education...
...flames; others, that she sat calm and upright upon the unlit pyre, her husband's head cradled in her lap, while relatives kindled the faggots. "All we know," said the Jodhpur police, "is that the lady died in the fire. Her intention seems to have been a well-kept family secret...