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Vatican Intervention. Sarita's death created a legal battle that eventually forced the Vatican to intervene. Bishop Garriga sued to regain his old position as a member of the foundation. Sarita's cousin also sued for reinstatement, and got an injunction preventing Brother Leo, Grace and associates from touching any of the estate's funds. In addition, he demanded an accounting of $1,000,000 that Brother Leo had withdrawn from Texas banks, apparently to finance the South American monasteries...
...process of rejoining three nerves and 18 tendons. That the Chinese did this at once, instead of waiting weeks or months as is customary in the U.S., is considered highly significant. For the longer any part of the body is left idle, the less likely it is ever to regain full usefulness. The whole operation took seven hours. Americans say they could have clipped about three hours off the total time by using a stapling machine to rejoin many parts...
...continued all afternoon. Humenuk kept mixing his passing plays with the Crimson's traditional running plays and never let the Indians regain their balance. Jerry Mechling, whose defensive work coach John Yovicson singled out for special praise after the game, gave Humenuk his next chance by intercepting a Dana Kelly pass at the Dartmouth 48 and returning...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An aging bobcat struggles to regain mastery of his domain. Color...
...Diem government, the President continued, probably could regain the support of the people, needed to win the war against the Communist Viet Cong, "with changes in policy, and perhaps in personnel. If it doesn't make those changes, I would think the chances of winning it would not be very good." Kennedy named no names, but the "personnel changes" he wanted were the removal from power of Diem's younger brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, and Nhu's acerbic wife...