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...high school administration and her position provides the lead-in for the comic outlet needed to catalyze this play's otherwise ordinary elements into their unexpectedly laugh-filled interaction. As Arthur Miller wrote purely gratuitous comedy into his caricature of a Jewish furniture dealer in The Price -and still wound up with a play soberly moralistic-Zwindel hit on a similar expediency to substitute mirth for nerve-frazzling catharsis: Fleur Stein, portrayed with knowing New York Jewish brashness by Rae Allen, shows up unexpectedly with her husband at the Reardon sisters' apartment to deliver a get-well present from...
...lift mishaps, skiers manage to slip in icy parking lots, strain untrained muscles or fall off ski-lodge bar stools. One young woman recently hurt herself in the ski shop at Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs a clinic at Vermont's Haystack Mountain, found that her tight ski pants were pressing on her leg nerves...
...their patients. The chief reason is that the body's enzymes can absorb catgut (actually made from cattle and sheep intestines), and the sutures usually disappear within 90 days. Because the material consists of animal protein, though, it has one flaw: it causes inflammation around the very wound it is supposed to heal...
...strapping, jovial Serbian, he is in the U.S. this year, tranquilly teaching a course called "Heresy and Dissent" at Brandeis University. But he lived through years of almost inhuman warfare as a Tito partisan in World War II, and still suffers searing headaches from a near fatal war wound. "When my head hurts," the otherwise generous Dedijer admits, "I hate all Germans, including Marx and Goethe...
...might well be recording the call, the paper's reporter asked: "Aren't you afraid they are going to use all this against you?" Said a woman at the other end: "They have given us so much misery we are not afraid any more." When the reporter wound up the call, he told the Riga Jews: "We will call you again next week if you want us to." The reply: "That's good. If we are still here...