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Furthermore, Good Will Ambassador Saund wove many a pungent political thread into his tapestry. Recalling an old Punjabi proverb, "Torn clothes should be stitched in time," he declared it is "inconceivable that two great democracies of the world-India and America-cannot understand each other while their objective is the same." The U.S. attitude on India's troubles with Pakistan, said Saund firmly, arises out of a realization of Russia's domination in Eastern Europe: "Aid to Pakistan was only part of an overall military strategy-against international Communism-given after carefully weighing all the facts of life...
...sizes is important in much major surgery and after accidents. It is vital in operations, present and projected, to transplant organs (TIME, Oct. 28). Although clamp's have been tried, they are suitable only in some cases: most vessels still have to be stitched painstakingly with fine thread...
...upper eyelid. A nurse peeled the lid back. The surgeon gripped the muscle on the inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes at the edge of the lid. Then, with hair-thin nylon thread, he stitched the muscle down. The eyelid was rolled back, covered with a cold cloth as the surgeon went to work on the other eye. Total operating time: five minutes...
...charged deuterium nuclei and force them to stay close together while an electric current heats them very hot. In practice, a magnetic bottle is some sort of glass tube, often doughnut-shaped, filled with rarefied deuterium. When electric current is shot through it in the proper way, a hot, thread-thin spark flickers briefly in the center. This is deuterium pinched together by magnetic force. It is many times hot enough to melt the glass of the tube, but it never gets to touch...
Died. William Clark, 66, tall, wealthy (Clark thread fortune heir), cantankerous former judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who left the bench to serve as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, returned to find his seat filled, sued claiming the G.I. Bill guaranteed him his job (he lost); of a heart attack; in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon. Harvardman ('11) Clark first gained fame in 1930 by ruling that the 18th (prohibition) Amendment was invalid, a decision unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court...