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Until then, Charles C. Griffin '22, a visiting professor from Vassar, will instruct three courses in the area. Griffin, who will begin a year at the University in the Fall, will fill a void due to the departure last spring of Thomas F. McGann '41. McGann taught four courses that comprised the entire offering in Latin American history...
...artificial kidney is for crisis situations when hours mean the difference between life and death. The human body cannot survive unless at least one kidney is doing its job of filtering the body's waste products from the blood so that they can be voided in the urine. A variety of things can cause an abrupt kidney shutdown: shock with heavy blood loss (after surgery or an accident), some severe infections, mismatched transfusions, and many poisons. Of these, carbon tetrachloride attacks the kidneys directly; most are general poisons (often, overdoses of common drugs such as barbiturates and even aspirin...
...facile an explanation. But the U.S. finds itself currently between policies in the Middle East. Arriving in Beirut, Assistant Rountree was greeted by Premier Rashid Karami, who told him that Lebanon, as the first Middle Eastern nation to embrace the Eisenhower Doctrine, now "considers this doctrine null and void." The U.S. was still as mistrustful of Nasser as he is resentful and suspicious of the U.S. But both are coming to see that there may be a force loose in the Middle East that is more dangerous to their own interests than each is to the other...
...those few of the intellectual patricians making up the Cambridge Scene who are tuned in on the main line of American folk culture, the names of Stella Dallas, Dick Tracy, Arthur Godfrey and Betty Crocker are not ciphers in a general twentieth-century void. These names and others like them are significant contributions to a respectable mass of Americana, as worthy of preservation as the Declaration of Independence or George Washington's garter...
...defeat of it all overwhelmed him--to have to admit to some eager sophomore that he hadn't gotten a date for the game. So Saturday approached and arrived and Vag set off for the game with a pair of fake binoculars filled with bourbon to fill the void left by a date...