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Traveling to the U.S. to visit his son in a South Bend, Ind., prep school last week, Bosch hopes to make his return by way of Washington for a visit with President Kennedy. The U.S. has already come through with $48 million worth of aid, plus a contingent of Peace Corpsmen and technical advisers. But the Dominican Republic still needs more. Encouraged by the orderly election results. U.S. officials are in a mood to help...
Blasting Round the Bend. Despite the heavy traffic on the rivers, barge operators talk poor mouth out of a fear of a proposal to levy a 2?-a-gallon fuel tax on users of the waterways, which have hitherto been toll free. The rivermen are even more upset over a threat from the nation's railroads, which whenever they run parallel to barge traffic are required by federal law to charge 6% more for freight than the barges. Arguing that federal maintenance of the waterways amounts to a subsidy to barge operators, the railroads have asked ICC permission...
...above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then a double electric shock restarted her heart. The pump-cooler was disconnected, and Ro Anne's chest was closed. For the first time in her life, her blood had a normal, unobstructed flow from her heart...
...Technically known as supravalvular aortic stenosis; not to be confused with coarctation of the aorta (a far commoner condition), which is a narrowing of the aorta just beyond its "big bend" in the upper chest, several inches from the heart...
...Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature day after day with hoe and pick...