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Where a surgeon must work in the skull, or perhaps the chest, their technique gives an added margin of safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...
There has been much argument since then over the identity of the sunken ship, but around Tobermory it became accepted as fact that she was the 960-ton galleon Duque de Florencia, a ship laden with gold and silver plate and carrying the Armada paymaster's chest, a hoard of 30 million ducats in gold coin...
...Taylor became the bride of Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr., 23, son of the hotelman. A crowd of 600 people jammed the candlelit Beverly Hills Church of the Good Shepherd; 2,500 more lined the streets outside. The young folks (the bride had just recovered from a cold in her chest) left for a four-part honeymoon: a night in Santa Monica; a week in Carmel, Calif.; a week in Manhattan; three months in Europe...
...After a visit to the Westminster Dog Show, Smith announced a discovery: "The ladies tethered to the tiny toys are invariably the most magnificent members of the species . . . The smallest pooch noted was towing the largest handler, a celestial creature measuring 17½ hands at the withers, deep of chest, with fine, sturdy pasterns...
...Chicago nightclub dancer even before the days of the Charleston, struck a pose for what she figured might be her 8,000th piece of cheesecake art. It had long since become a routine with her, she explained: "I just pull in my tummy, throw out my chest...