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...professors, "No Democratic Governor of the Commonwealth has received an honorary degree for many decades, and no Republican Governor has failed to receive one." With Galbraith playing viceroy in India and Schlesinger glued to the White House TV set, President Pusey may go out on a limb this year and name Gov. Volpe--a Republican...
Married. Martyn Green, 61, ebullient British-born Gilbert and Sullivan star who lost his left leg in an agonizing penknife amputation after it became wedged in an elevator shaft in 1959, but returned to the stage with an artificial limb and danced a jig in Knights of Song; and Yvonne Chauveau, 39, a model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rowayton, Conn...
...view of the Afro-Asians: "No man, because of his color, should be regarded as an outcast. We of the Commonwealth have proclaimed our stand to the world." The London Times saw the Commonwealth as now on "a secure multiracial basis," and the Guardian stated bluntly: "An unhealthy limb has been removed...
...ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most of the Behrman-Wright cases, the patients took their anticoagulants (usually drugs of the coumarin family) without a break, even on the day of operation...
...Wilson also carefully groomed a daringly different successor, Vice President Harry Ransom, who became president last fall when Wilson moved up to chancellor. Says one admiring facultyman of Ransom, who now becomes chancellor: "He doesn't just walk out on a limb for you. He climbs out on a twig, and jumps up and down on the leaf...