Word: tip
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fighting a doubly defensive campaign: he was defending the record of the Eisenhower Administration and defending himself against the Kennedy onslaught. Taking to an old-fashioned campaign train, Nixon sought to bolster Republican areas in Pennsylvania. Ohio, Illinois and Michigan in hopes that Republican majorities might be able to tip state balances against Kennedy's strong hold on big cities. He called Kennedy's recession campaigning the "most disgraceful, irresponsible statement, probably, of this campaign, other than the one he made on the Cuban situation...
...Cincinnati-which went 62½% for Ike in 1956. The G.O.P. counts on carrying the farm counties, along with Dayton and Columbus. The rising Democratic tide in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and other major industrial areas (in Youngstown, 30,000 of the 55,000 steelworkers are unemployed) should easily tip the balance. KENNEDY...
...Unknown Animal. By current Congolese standards one of the bright spots in the nation's health picture is Beni -a village at the northeast tip of remote Kivu province. Beni's modern. Belgian-built hospital is staffed by two physicians on loan from the Irish Red Cross; a new X-ray machine and cases of operating-room equipment are stacked against its walls, and the dispensary is equipped with large stocks of antimalaria drugs. But the U.N.'s Irish doctors found the Belgians had made no attempt to control the spread of malaria by clearing swamps...
Simple Dexterity. Prime element in he Sones-Shirey method is the catheter, a snakelike, 31-in. tube that tapers in diameter from 3.2 mm. down to 1.6 mm. at its tip. The catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...
...another record: the Picassos brought in $636,720, the biggest single sale of a living artist. Between the Picassos, ten Modiglianis and an assortment of Crises, Soutines, Braques, Rouaults and one Matisse, Collector Sarlie netted more than $1,000,000. What did he intend to start buying now? A tip from the top: Abstractionists Hartung, Soulages, De Stae...