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Central Executive Committee and replaced it with a "Central Reform Committee." Kuomintang spokesmen carefully explained that this move finally ended the power of the "CC clique," named for the Brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu. Many U.S. observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency of Chiang's regime. Key figure in the reform drive was Formosa's able governor K. C. Wu, former mayor of Chungking and of Shanghai. Said Wu recently: "I am determined to eradicate corruption [and] to make the island as secure internally as the military men are going...
...injecting 40 cc of air into the veins of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto, Dr. Sander had committed a "morally reprehensible action," and had violated his obligations to his patient and his profession,.said the board. The injection, Sander had testified, was "a senseless act" and not a mercy killing. But no physician, said the board, "can be allowed to perform a senseless act." Two New Hampshire hospitals promptly dropped Dr. Sander from their staffs (two Roman Catholic hospitals had already barred him for life), and the American Academy of General Practice announced he would be suspended from...
...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...
...press party given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...
Helporn claimed that less than 200 cc's of air could cause death. Ford had based this figure on experiments with dogs and rabbits, and Helpern said, "I don't believe results from dogs can be transferred to human beings. Dogs are unusually resistant to injections...