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Formosa newspapers have recently played up the decision of Admiral Robert Carney, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, not to transfer landing craft "at this time" to Free China's navy, and his statement that he is checking U.S. Pacific naval operations "to see where we can cut back." They also singled out a remark by Secretary of State Dulles that the U.S. is not forever opposed to the recognition of Red China, if it gives up its aggressive ways...
There have been 16 more operations, many of them of surpassing delicacy, to graft tendons from the foot to the hand and connect them with muscles in the boy's forearm. One of the most crucial, done early this year, was a tendon transfer to give Terry an apposable left thumb. It worked. Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand. British style...
...Surgeon Clarkson knows, this is the first transfer of a complete set of five digits. Terry's new fingers will probably never grow longer than they would have as toes. But there is hope that they will keep on growing for a while. As for that limp, his shortened left foot does not keep Terry, now 16, from playing soccer with his schoolmates...
Important Hints. Cullmann agrees with the Catholics on the evidence of Peter's transfer to Rome, though he concedes that the evidence is indirect. Going further. Cullmann endorses the traditional version of Peter's death. The early evidence for this, also, is no more than "hints," for Christian writers did not begin mentioning Peter's Roman martyrdom until the second and third centuries. But the hints are important ones, e.g., in all the church controversies of the early centuries, no one saw fit to deny Peter's Roman martyrdom. As Cullmann observes: "Were we to demand...
...lady judge sent them right back up again. "Mrs. Harpstrite is very competent to hear this," she said. "There's no reason to transfer it here." Conciliator Harpstrite was still vexed. "It isn't fair," she cried "She sits down there on her podium and I do all the work. It just isn't fair. I work so hard so many nights and go without lunch all the time and she comes in and has her picture taken and gets all of the glory." She wept...