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President Eisenhower's medical chart continued to show an upward curve. For the first time, he sat up in a wheelchair and was pushed around the sun-drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
Representatives of 17 nations gathered in Singapore's blue-columned Victoria Hall last week to take stock of the Colombo Plan's first five years and to chart a course for the next...
...Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who made the simple discovery that "character was the brain." From this it was a simple step to decide that if one knew what went on on the surface of the brain, one would know what went on underneath. Before long there was a little chart dividing the brain into 37 faculties, each doing its little bit to help a man on his path to perfection-or to hinder him (as in the Bump of Destructiveness). By midcentury, in the U.S. and Britain, phrenologists were as prevalent as dandruff...
...poring over his soil-conservation folder, the most precious document on his farm, which he never lets out of his keeping. It includes his soil-test figures (he can get free tests done either by the Tennessee state laboratories or by a fertilizer company that offers the service), a chart of his program for terracing and contouring and planting, and an aerial photo-mosaic with contour and field lines superimposed. So far, Joe has put in 4,000 ft. of terraces and drainage ditches, converted about 90 acres from thicket to permanent pasture...
...more dead cells disappear, temperature and blood count return to normal. At the same time, the heart is developing collateral circulation. Immediately after a clot forms, the pressure drops in the area beyond it, and blood enters the area by alternate routes, such as already-existing interconnecting channels (see chart). Later, new arteries may grow into the area, and after that a new channel may even grow through the clot...