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...separate small vessels that are superimposed on each other. One of the major breakthroughs at last week's AHA meeting came when the Cleveland Clinic's Drs. Earl Shirey and F. Mason Sones Jr. demonstrated a diagnostic technique that seems likely to improve on the arteriogram-a method of coordinating the ray, a specially designed catheter and a movie camera to produce the first high-peed (60 frames per second) pictures of he coronary arteries in action...
Simple Dexterity. Prime element in he Sones-Shirey method is the catheter, a snakelike, 31-in. tube that tapers in diameter from 3.2 mm. down to 1.6 mm. at its tip. The catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...
Despite its risks, the technique will be welcomed, says Dr. Sones, if it proves to offer physicians a precise method of diagnosing coronary artery disease...
Another Vermonter, one who opposes Meyer, believes that "leaders of the world have never realized that cooperation is a better method than competition." When it was pointed out to him that this was precisely Meyer's attitude he replied, "I know, but in today's world you have to vote for the man who will do the most expedient thing...
...choice is, as Senator Kennedy has said, between two philosophies of government, if non-government can be called a philosophy. The Republicans offer a government that speaks only when spoken to; whose method of operation is that of reaction to stimuli; whose policy toward strangers is to set up a Neighborhood Protection Association; whose policy toward enemies is to slap and howl when stung and to exchange insult for insult; whose policy at home is to throw the dogs a crumb when their barking becomes too loud. The Democrats, on the other hand, offer the promise of systematic programs...