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Nita Sue Kent Waco, Texas...
...course of a long presidential election campaign a chosen few journalists enjoy the opportunity of watching candidates go through their dawn-to-dusk schedules from a claustrophobic range. Last week in Waco, Texas, TIME Photographer Arthur Grace was reminded that the candidates get a good chance to watch journalists too. As he posed for the accompanying picture with Jimmy Carter and Correspondent Christopher Ogden, Grace was surprised to hear the President call him his "secret adviser." Added Carter: "Whenever I speak, I look to you to see if you're going to give me the thumbs up or down...
...WACO, Tex.--The entire news staff of the Baylor University student newspaper, The Baylor Lariat, resigned March 4 to protest the dismissal of the paper's three editors...
Each year Doctors Robert Crosthwait and Robert Angel perform more than one hundred and twenty coronary artery bypass operations at Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas. Once the patient is anesthetized, his chest is opened and his heart is connected to a heart lung machine which will maintain the body's circulation while the heart is stopped. In the photograph above, Dr. Crosthwait makes an incision to expose the coronary artery while Dr. Angel aids with forceps. They will then stitch one end of a vein which they have removed from the patient's leg to the coronary and the other...
...twister was part of the worst tornado system to hit Texas since 1953, when 114 people were killed in Waco. One evening last week, perhaps as many as ten funnels roared down the Red River Valley, along the border of Texas and Oklahoma. The corridor is known as Tornado Alley because its springtime atmospheric conditions-warm air from the Gulf collides with cold fronts from the north-make it ripe for spawning twisters...