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...they have seen no ill effects, and believe the vacuum cup may save many mothers from difficult and dangerous forceps deliveries, or the alternative of a caesar-ean.* On results to date, the Brooklyn doctors are "cautiously enthusiastic" and are confident that the suction cup is worth a wider trial...
...politics, and even the gullible know in their political hearts that no real promises have been made. With the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedy forces are ready to make that more than clear. "The field is wide open," said a top Kennedy lieutenant last week. "The wider open it is, the better it is for Kennedy." Everybody but Harry Truman is eligible...
...bludgeon to force the Common Market nations to abandon their tariff discrimination against the rest of Europe. But last week, as the Outer Seven deposited the articles of ratification in Stockholm and became a formal reality. Swedish Commerce Minister Gunnar Lange glumly conceded that prospects of bringing about a wider association between the Outer Seven and the Inner Six "do not seem very bright...
...Test. As for flat "misstatements," Birmingham's leaders deny that the views of John Crommelin, a retired Navy admiral running for the U.S. Senate on an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic platform, have, as Salisbury wrote, "a wider acceptance than many Alabamans will admit." Fact: running in a gubernatorial election in 1958, Extremist Crommelin polled 2,245 out of 681,000 votes...
...civilian medical officer in Samoa, took his wife and children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy were getting no results. Dr. Donohugh decided to throw his Navy training to the winds. Instead of proceeding only through channels, he labeled his charges "for wider dissemination" and slipped a copy to a newsman. What happened after that would have been grist for Somerset Maugham to grind out a sequel to Rain...