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...last day of his Vienna visit, Jack Kennedy rose early to bone up for the morning's session with Khrushchev, then escorted Jackie to 9 o'clock Mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral. About the same time, Khrushchev solemnly laid a wreath of red carnations at the base of the Russian war memorial in Schwarzenbergplatz, stood with bared head bowed for nearly five minutes before the marble column. Then, just after 10, Kennedy and his advisers drove up to the grey, stuccoed Soviet embassy for a lunch and final matching of wits on nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin. "I greet...
...transfusions since the method was first tried there in 1930. U.S. doctors have shied away from it because of prejudice against contact with anything taken from a corpse. The Pontiac pathologists hoped that this prejudice was weakening with wider acceptance of corneal grafting and the transplanting of bone and arteries from accident victims...
This summer an effort will be made to recover the scattered bones of the bison, which was apparently butchered at the site. The muck of the springs is such a splendid preservative that even traces of pollen and animal hair as well as the fine bone specimens have been recovered, according to Miss Irwin. Work at the site is dangerous, as the muck tends to trap students in the same way it sucked in animals...
Established in 1918, the 4¼% interest ceiling has long been a bone of contention. It hampers Government borrowing in periods of tight money, when investors are tempted by nonfederal issues that offer a higher rate of interest. In 1959. former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson considered the discount as a legal escape hatch but rejected it as devious-an opinion prompted by his inability to get a change through a Democratic Congress...
...Some footage on the Warsaw ghetto, excerpted from SS training films, that is just about as gruesome as any ever put through a projector. Reduced to less than 200 calories a day, Warsaw's Jews shrivel up to skin and bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...