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...when his motorcade took him past the ruins of a U.S. Information Service center that was set afire in anti-Washington riots last September. To both Pakistan and India, which are still smarting over suspension of U.S. aid programs as a result of their border war over Kashmir, Humphrey bore good, if modest, tidings. After conferring with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Humphrey announced a new $50 million loan. When he saw India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he was able to promise a $100 million loan...
...says McEachen, the reaming-out (see diagram), which he does in the di rection opposite to that of the blood flow to reduce the risk of clotting, may have to be combined with the graft of a patch into the side of the diseased artery to restore its full bore. Under any circumstances, he said, the heart-lung machine is needed during the operation, and the surgeon has to use "microsurgical instruments, magnifying lenses, tiny sutures and great care." Of six Santa Monica patients followed for up to three years, five have derived major benefit from the procedure...
Sandra, though lento-paced and pretentious, does create a bewitching atmosphere of decadence. While the old, ordered world passes into limbo, Visconti savors every detail of a cavernous manse where each drafty, half-lit corridor and every gleaming bit of crystal augurs ill. But finally the decor becomes a bore, and even Visconti's human characters seem used up, lifeless, set into place like figures in a faded tapestry...
...inherit the earth," he grumbles. His adversary is a German, Hardy Kruger, a small humorless cipher whose knowledge of aerodynamics puts everyone's fate in his hands, and well he knows it. Richard Attenborough is flawless as a stuttering, alcoholic navigator, rivaled by Ian Bannen as a bore abristle with saving wit, and Peter Finch as an officer whose code of honor consists mostly of suicidal gestures...
Holding the child's interest is vital to programmed instruction, since each child works alone at his own pace. Breaking reading down to simple steps that lead a child progressively toward more difficult words, yet do not bore him, was Sullivan's greatest problem. His first attempts failed badly. A member of his team at the time, Psychologist Allen Calvin, tried programming a Superman story, found that it held kids' interest about nine times longer than the reading program. Even a programmed version of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue did five times better. "We were terribly discouraged," recalls...