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Washington is willing to bend, but only a bit. Commerce Secretary John Connor said last week that U.S. businessmen may lend and invest freely in the underdeveloped nations. The U.S. is in no mood to relax its restrictions on the 22 "developed" nations-including all of Europe as well as Japan and Australia-because it is continuing to lose gold. The nation's gold supply dropped another $250 million last week, bringing the year's loss up to $825 million and the stock at Fort Knox down to a 27-year low of $14.6 billion...
...unpopular to lead them to election victory. They are pressing for a party caucus before Parliament convenes Feb. 16 to pick a new leader. Diefenbaker, after eight years of leadership, shows no inclination to fade quietly away. "I am not a reed," he says. "I do not bend." But he might be broken...
...sled was too fast for its own good: on a practice run, Steersman Larry McKillip hit a rut and lost control coming out of Shamrock Bend, and smashed full force into the retaining wall. The sled's frame was hopelessly bent, and McKillip bruised an arm. The solution seemed obvious: slow down. But that didn't work, either: Steersman James Hickey took the four-man G.M. sled into Devil's Dyke so slowly that it could not hold the wall. The sled dropped like a stone from the face of the curve, and the runners were damaged...
...what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it-and we will bend it to the hopes...
...ball valve is rougher on blood cells than nature's leaflet valves, so surgeons at the University of Wisconsin have developed butterfly valves of Teflon that come closer to the original in design. The demands on the plastic in such valves are tremendous: the leaflets must bend back and forth 40 million times a year. But so far, 39 patients have had them installed as replacements for aortic or mitral valves, and they are still working after as long as 20 months...