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...Cambodian border and seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both hands before his chest in the Bud dhist attitude of prayer and bowed. Afterward, the visitors stood beaming as Khanh presented a U.S.-made hearing aid to the founder's mother, a partly deaf octogenarian who still lives on the place; the old woman seemed baffled but appreciative...
...soon continued to the hospital where casualities were being brought in. One of the first was a soldier with a bullet fired clean through the chest. His agonized expression seemed to frame an ironic question about the value of his comrades' revolt. On Monday, four soldiers, six Arabs, and about a dozen African civilians were killed, all in "non-military" action...
...shown. The Chicago Daily News, a reasonable paper in other respects, used to paint out the nipples of male wrestlers and other shirtless athletes. The Atlanta Journal supplies shirts. Before passing an ad for the movie The Love Makers, in which Claudia Cardinale reposes on the chest of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Journal daubed a tunic on Belmondo. In Southern California, where seminudity is a way of life, the Los Angeles Times does its best to spare readers what they can see on any beach...
...sudden, catastrophic form of embolism is marked by severe pain in the chest, fever and coughed-up blood. Often the victim is known to have had some blood-vessel disorder, such as phlebitis. In the creeping insidious form, there is no such history of clotting disease to alert the doctor. The patient usually complains of nothing more precise than shortness of breath or fainting, though in slightly more severe cases he may collapse completely on exertion. What has happened, said Dr. Goodwin, is that small blood clots have blocked some of the narrower blood vessels leading to the lungs...
...beginning to spread out into broader areas, taking a more active part in the world of culture. Corning Glass invites philosophers and writers to periodic conferences, one of which will be held in May to discuss the problems of Africa. Ford Motor, whose $6,500,000 company-contributions chest is entirely apart from the Ford Foundation, helps support 17 symphony orchestras and has just doled out $370,000 to restore the sagging Washington and Lee University chapel; the company felt that Robert E. Lee's tomb deserved better surroundings...