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...touching the planking of the skiff, and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.... Then the fish came alive, with all his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty....'I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish...
Half a Toothpick. With high-speed film, the resultant X-ray image is sharp enough to show blockages only one-fourth the width of a coronary artery, and to pick out collateral blood vessels only 80 microns in diameter-about half the thickness of a toothpick. Says Sones: "We hope eventually to be able to see vessels as small as 30 microns (.0012 in.) in diameter, because even vessels that small can act as effective collateral channels for blood from a diseased artery...
Oldsmobile, which last week introduced its F85 (TIME, Aug. 8), first of the General Motors luxury compacts, has also cut the size of its standard cars by as much as 51 in. in length and 3½ in. in width...
...Insult to All. Because Communist chieftains are so eager to see division in the West, they tend to overestimate both the width of the fissures they detect and their ability to widen them with ploys, threats and propaganda. Crude Communist efforts to stir division within the U.S. or between the U.S. and its allies often have the opposite effect of fostering a more determined unity. Inevitably, Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower rebounded...
...Sports Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...