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...severe as to be an immediate threat to life itself, there is now virtually no lower limit to the age at which surgeons will move in. Dr. Gross has operated on 300 premature babies, one of whom weighed only11 Ib. 14 oz. Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley. 42, another bold vanguardsman in this field, regularly schedules four operations a day. By now, he has done 450 major operations on infants less than a year old. He will put even these tiny patients on the heart-lung machine if necessary, though he prefers not to. Either way, baby surgery...
...restore full circulation to the brain when there is critical narrowing in an accessible artery in the neck. His colleague, Dr. Cooley, did the first operation to remove an aneurysm (a thin, ballooned-out section) from the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. He tried putting a patient on the heart-lung machine two years ago while he removed a "pulmonary embolism," a usually fatal blood clot in the pulmonary artery. Now. with three successes logged, Cooley believes the procedure should be made generally available, with disposable oxygen kits ready in all major hospitals...
Little Change. Beyond that, the Administration picked up votes from the Florida contingent, and two North Carolinians joined Harold Cooley, dean of their delegation, in switching their votes from 1960. Explained Cooley: "My fears of two years ago were apparently not very well founded...
...Cooley's fears then were that a liberalized Rules Committee would mean that a batch of New Frontier legislation would be waved through the House. They were certainly not very well founded. Even as expanded, the Rules Committee in the 87th Congress held up 24 bills, including Administration proposals on an urban-affairs department, a mass-transit act, broad federal aid to education, and a youth-conservation corps. More important, other priority Administration bills were either bottled up in other committees or defeated on the House floor...
...left over from the magazine's serialization of Fail-Safe. Leaders negotiate "in the shadow of nuclear war" and make "the live-or-die decisions when the chips are down." As cliches mount, the reader half expects the next phone call to be answered by old Scab Cooley. But instead it is McGeorge Bundy who hears a CIAman's cryptic, spy-befuddling report of the Soviet missiles in Cuba. "Those things we've been worrying about"; says the CIAman cleverly, "it looks as though we've really got something." There is even room to mention...