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...last week Randy formally abandoned his theories of a center party, explaining that he had advocated it as a "trial balloon." Commented the News Chronicle: "One cannot avoid the suspicion that it was an older member of the Churchill family who stuck a needle-possibly a lighted cigar-into the trial balloon...
...Four days of sweat, bad food and virgin jungle. A bushmaster bit me in the left index finger-had to shoot the end of the finger off to avoid dying...
...leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn...
...root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion. There are many anesthetics, each with its pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist...
Father Gannon is noteworthy among Catholic college presidents for his outspokenness (most of his colleagues let the hierarchy do the talking), for publishing Fordham's annual accounts (unwritten Catholic law is to avoid public financial statements whenever possible), and for the fact that he is apparently scheduled to head his university for an indefinite period. Few presidents of Catholic colleges serve more than a set term, which in the 68 Jesuit-run schools (including Fordham) is six years. Father Gannon's term would normally have been up last June, but his superiors got round its regulation by appointing...