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...wounded South Koreans. In one case, he took only ten minutes to remove a bullet lodged a quarter of an inch from a man's heart. In another, where the wounded man had a bullet through the lung, Surgeon Cyr saved his life by expertly sealing off the chest. Ashore, he performed skillful amputations by flashlight in a mud hut. In short, the navy's medical service was doing a good, alert...
Budget is expected to run somewhere under $1,000 dollars. Ivy paid off its debts over the summer, and could finance the picture, but prefers not to take the chance. West End organizations such as the Red Feather, the Community Chest, the Unions, Church groups, and Settlement groups are interested in having the picture made, but cannot lend financial assistance...
Resources: A lush northerly tropic with fertile plains, great rivers, high, tree-covered mountains and volcanoes, the Philippines are an agricultural hothouse and a treasure chest of only partially exploited minerals (copper, gold, chromite, manganese, iron, some coal). Properly developed, they could support perhaps 100 million people...
...kind of boy we want," says Princeton's director of student aid, "is the one who's going to run the Community Chest in his home town some day ... We want him to be in the top 8% of his class, to be class president, editor of the school paper . . ." Kazmaier fits the pattern: his high school grades were mostly A's and he had been president of his class and of Hi-Y. He got his scholarship -a $400 grant, which falls $200 short of Princeton's tuition fee; he lost it for one term...
...There are three or four portraits in existence with some claim to having been painted in Cortés lifetime. Bernal Díaz del Castillo described him around 1568 as being "of a good height and body and well proportioned . . . His chest was high and his back of a good shape, and he was lean and of little belly...