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...throw it away. He can be a charming, top-hatted and white-gloved diplomat-or a deadly antagonist. Says an admiring British Commonwealth diplomat: "He is a joy to behold in action. I have never seen any man who could sit at a conference table and smile and nod and rub his hands-and, when the occasion demands, be so coldly vicious." Thus, in Lebanon last fortnight, when Nasserite Rebel Leader Saeb Salam threatened to pitch U.S. marines into the sea, Murphy's eyes turned hard, and he began cracking his knuckles like a machine gun. Said...
...conventional medical schools (except for the added emphasis on manipulation) before granting the degree of D.O. Graduates are fully licensed to practice as physicians and surgeons in 36 states; D.O.s are now eligible for appointment as military surgeons by the armed services-though none has yet been given the nod by the M.D.s in the three medical corps...
...Judicial Nod. In Fribourg, Switzerland, Judge Germain Kolly was fined 110 Swiss francs after Marcel Peiry and three associates-convicted of theft-asked for and got a new trial when they pointed out that the judge had slept through part of the proceedings...
...anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their work being done by the heart-lung machine, the surgeon opened her right ventricle. At this moment, speaking through the hearing aid, Marmer asked the girl to open her eyes. She did so at once. He asked her to nod her head if she could hear him. She nodded. To satisfy incredulous observers in the operating theater, Marmer repeated the routine, got the same responses. The surgeon widened the valve and sewed up the girl's heart. Marmer told her to go back to sleep. She slept soundly during...
Republicans of the Corn State, where the party's nod used to be enough to send a man to the Governor's chair, thus broke seniority rules to enlist the services of a fast-running newcomer. They had reason enough: Incumbent Herschel C. (for Cel-lel) Loveless, 47, rough-cut sample of the conservatism that marks today's Democratic Governors. By vetoing the legislature's extension of the sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups...