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Surgeon Graham opened Gilmore's chest. What he saw brought him up sharp. The cancer was not, as he had expected, confined to one lobe of the left lung but had its origin in the bronchus (one of the two major branches of the windpipe) supplying air to the entire lung. Graham looked up to Chalfant. "I'm not going to be able to remove the cancer without removing the whole lung," he said through the muffling layers of his mask. "What do you think about...
...fight in Congress is threatening civil rights legislation. The Administration program provided for a six-member commission to investigate claims of rights denied because of race, color, religion, or national origin. A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee has eliminated the word "religion" because it might open the way to other amendments giving the commission authority in matters not related to the intent of the original program...
...named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start at the beginning with The Origin of Species. Soon, except that she likes to enter her flat by climbing the drainpipe, and that she has a humble and loving heart (at the mission school she had heard the hymn, "He that is low need fear no fall"). Emily is indistinguishable from other intellectuals...
...Origin of Specious. In London, in the name of the staid Lord's Day Observance Society, hoaxers sent out calendars with pictures of sketchily clad young women and a verse under the January pinup...
Lefaber, a Hungarian by origin, would be especially important in the process of selection, Taylor said. The committee would present its candidate for review by the College Admissions Board, in the normal admissions manner...