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...heart surgery performed by Dr. DeBakey et al. [April 29] was interesting and exciting. However, I believe that the play-by-play news releases went beyond the limits of medical ethics by violating the physician's obligation to keep his patient's problems and therapy to himself. Such experimental medical procedures, though a necessary part of medical advancement, should not be displayed to the public like a baseball game; the dignity of the patient and his family is too important to permit that...
...Negro vote was not powerful enough to thwart the Wallaces' gambit, it managed nonetheless to shake such local despotisms as the Dallas County sheriffdom of Jim Clark, the nationally televised heavy of the Selma march last year, and to settle old scores against the likes of Al Lingo, the onetime state police chief who was humiliatingly beaten in his primary bid to become the sheriff of Jefferson County (Birmingham...
...coach Al Wilson, who keeps track of the progress of his golfers with three walkie-talkies, chalked up his ninth victory in a row over Harvard...
Princeton upset Harvard's junior varsity in the most exciting race on the Charles Saturday afternoon. The Tigers led the entire way, establishing almost a length over the Crimson in the last 30 strokes of the race. But as coxswain Al Bartlett called the stroke up to a 39. Harvard surged forward and, seat by seat, pulled so close that it was several minutes before the judges decided that Princeton had won by a margin of four-tenths of a second. Yale crossed the finish line eight length behind...
Diehard fans insist that the Yanks will come around. But the Orioles have already walloped them four out of five, and the second-place Cleveland Indians, who tied a modern major-league record with ten straight victories, have beaten them twice in a row. Says Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline: "They used to come out on the field, and you just knew they expected to win. There isn't much of that any more...