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Mechanically, the surgeons agree, there is no reason such a splint should not work if the lower end of the rod were firmly wedged in hard tissue. But in the past, use of internal splints has been restricted to slim wire to align broken bones in fingers, toes and arms. In such cases, outside splinting is also used and the mended bones are not required to withstand any end-to-end pressure. They call the rod technique "a daring operation" and wonder how their German colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons...
Hopeful news leaked out of tight-sealed Paraguay last week. A courageous manifesto signed by 3,000 citizens requested President Higinio Morínigo to abandon his dictatorship, call popular elections so that Paraguay might align herself with the rest of the continent in the democratic way of life. First in the list of signers was revered Dr. Juan Boggino, poet, physiologist and Dean of the University of Asuncion. Morínigo answered the appeal with a wave of arrests and deportations of democratic elements. But he did not dare touch Dr. Boggino, for fear of nationwide resentment...
...moment or for the twinkling of an eye." Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits failed to win the Ethiopian Copts to the Roman Catholic fold. Now the Egyptian Copts fear that if Haile Selassie's demand is denied, he may align the Ethiopian Copts with a rival body-perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church...
Perhaps in the end we can align ourselves with the Washington admiral who told the press that he agreed with Colonel Kernan's title but couldn't vouch for the validity of all his theories. The only difference is that the admiral hadn't read the book...
...Argentina will align her foreign policy closer to that of the United States within the next five weeks" was the prediction yesterday of Amado Alonso, director of the Institute of Philology of Buenos Aires University, who has delivered two lectures on Spanish literature in Cambridge...