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...Geneva, the outside chill of events rarely interrupted their scholarly labors. Iraq erupted, British and U.S. troops landed, Khrushchev cried that war was about to break out. But in Council Chamber No. 7 at the old League of Nations Palace, Russian and Western negotiators each day made their inch of progress toward agreeing on an international plan for detecting atomic tests. Last week, despite uncommunicative two-line communiques, final agreement was reportedly all but reached...
...franchisers are Rexall's lifeblood, and Dart has carefully courted them. He urges them to visit the Los Angeles headquarters (1,000 will this year), rolls out the red carpet. When the junketeering Rexallite marches into the lobby, he is surprised to see his name posted in two-inch-high plastic letters on a welcome sign and hear it blared through a public-address system...
...Brown found it difficult to land his wicked left hooks and right uppercuts. But in the end, it was the young challenger who tired. Brown began boring in, bloodied Lane's face in the 9th round, knocked his mouthpiece out in the 10th, made use of his six-inch advantage in reach to power hard rights deep into the challenger's stomach. By the 15th round, Lane was out on his feet, and Brown won a close but unanimous decision. The undisputed king of the lightweights went home to his wife and four children in Baton Rouge, forgotten...
Kent's heart stopped soon after the heart sac was cut open, but promptly picked up its beat again on being massaged. Dr. Glenn cut through the right pulmonary artery (see diagram) at its beginning near the ventricle, carried the free end around to a hole, half an inch across, cut in the side of the superior vena cava, and stitched it in, like a plumber's elbow joint. Then he tied off the vein near its normal entrance to the auricle. In this way, 30% to 40% of Kent's venous blood (the proportion carried...
Flea Point Landing. In Bell Gardens, Calif., Lester Grinstead leaped from a, bridge, landed 40 ft. below in one inch of water flowing over the concrete bottom of the Los Angeles River, got up, shook himself, walked off uninjured...