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Looking through today's CRIMSON, I must say I found the quoted remarks of Mr. Richard W. Patch, concerning Bolivia and Peru, rather remarkable...
...Patch is quoted as saying, "I think [the M.N.R.] is doing remarkably well." "He called Bolivia the outstanding example of a country that has exceeded the goals established in the Alliance for Progress...
...famous fairy-tale emperor: everybody was talking about new clothes, but nobody could actually see them. After three years of bad cotton crops, the annual cloth ration has shrunk to as little as 2½ ft. per person in some regions-"just enough," said one refugee, "to patch our rags." So severe is the shortage, according to the official Peking People's Daily, that "clothes hospitals" are making "short-sleeved shirts out of long-sleeved shirts, a vest out of a short-sleeved shirt, and underwear out of a vest...
...metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad to earn foreign exchange. With the onset of the chilly season, even the cloth wrapping on gift parcels from relatives abroad is used to patch threadbare garments. Said one refugee in Hong Kong: "We are used to getting cold in the winter...
...brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch, or putting in a patch graft to widen the artery. But evaluation of stroke victims' recovery is so difficult that no fewer than 22 medical centers are now doing DeBakey operations and comparing the results with the fate of unoperated patients. It will be a few years before medicine has a collective verdict...