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...move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders. Guttmann found that the best way to keep the muscles strong was to launch a sports program. He invented the Stoke Mandeville swimming stroke: the patient sits upright in the water, paralyzed feet floating in front of him, and rows himself backward with his arms...
...Turkey is also feeling the pinch. For more than two years, Turkey has sold more than two-thirds of its output of chromite (used to harden steel) to the U.S. The dollars it earned have helped to pay for the capital-works program which is lifting Turkey's backward economy by its bootstraps. But with U.S. chromite demands and prices on the downgrade, this source of dollars is drying...
...make no change in present U.S. tariff policy. If "trade, not aid" was to become more than a slogan, President Eisenhower would have to lead the U.S. a lot farther along the road toward restoring world markets. Meanwhile, Ike's holding action had saved the U.S. from a backward step...
...medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic operation of lobotomy (cutting nerve connections in the forebrain) to relieve unbearable pain and the severest mental disorders. Now, in the A.M.A. Journal, 16 years and 2,000 lobotomies later, bearded Surgeon Freeman takes a long, hard look backward over the hazards, successes and failures of lobotomy, and notes a sharp distinction between old and new techniques...
BRITAIN'S A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. is ready to build the Avro "Atlantic," world's first delta-wing airliner. A commercial version of the Vulcan four-jet bomber now in production, the 600-m.p.h. Atlantic would carry 90 to 115 passengers (sitting backward for greater safety in case of a crash). Estimated elapsed time from London to New York: 6½ hours nonstop. With production contracts, Avro promises delivery...