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...headlines told it, the story of congressional debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine was a step-by-step battle over phrases. With the doctrine passed, the story is something far bigger: the story of a historic step in U.S. foreign policy that began with a scribble on a yellow scratch pad. It is told exclusively in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Eisenhower Doctrine...
...fiery and mildly turbercular look in the eye, a copy of Keats beneath the arm, sandals on the feet, and a beard, one cannot be denied. The musical approach is more subtle. After five minutes in the interview, whip out a tuning fork, smile delightedly, whip out a pad, and compose like mad for a few minutes. Then resume former composure, quite calmly...
Undergraduates and graduate students at the University and at Radcliffe have been invited to submit material for the first issue before next Monday's deadline. "We will consider anything from a doodle on a note-pad to a mile-high oil triptych," Martin said...
...lung machine to help selected cardiac repeaters survive the critical first six to eight hours. The heart-lung machine, previously used mainly in heart surgery to provide the surgeon with a dry field, takes blood from the leg vein of a patient, 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...
...Intellectual Wilderness." Dulles scribbled heavily at his doodle pad, his face beet-red, and Rhode Island's ancient (89) Theodore Francis Green suggested impatiently that Bill Fulbright was going far beyond the senatorial province of asking questions. Later Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey took up the Fulbright cause...