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...sooner had the Senate labor racketeering probe recessed one afternoon last week than workmen rushed to load the same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House...
...infuses oxygen, filters out bubbles in a pad of steel wool and returns the blood under pressure into an arm artery. By thus handling the circulation of about one-third of the body's blood supply, the machine sometimes relieves an ailing heart muscle of enough of its load to keep it going. In the first two cardiac cases so treated at Kings County, one got "dramatic relief," a second "less-striking improvement...
...difficulties are stacked in front of the hero (James Stewart) and in the moviegoer's mind: bad weather, the sod runway almost ankle-deep in mud and spotted with potholes, high wires and high trees near the field's edge, engine running 30 revs too low, gas load at least a hundred gallons more than the plane has ever taken off with, pilot already worn from lack of sleep, worried faces of mechanics, earnest discouragements from the hero's friends, and again those high wires. At the moment when the tension becomes unbearable, the young...
...DEBT LOAD has mounted to $4,650 for every American. U.S. Chamber of Commerce figures total Government, corporate, individual debt is more than $769 billion, but says it is no danger as long as prosperity stays high...
...countless G.I.s who spent a tour of duty in Japan, few failed to load up on souvenirs. But only a handful of Americans realized what a collector's paradise was within their reach. Among the enthusiastic exceptions are the two Hauge brothers, Victor and Osborne, who with Osborne's wife Gratia were sent to Tokyo at the end of World War II, promptly fell in love with oriental ways and decided that the key to the mysterious East...