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...real answer to successful, all-out heart surgery is likely to be a device which will take over the work of both sides of the heart and the lungs as well. The "Michigan heart," as Harper officials call Dr. Dodrill's machine, is built like a V12 engine: the second bank of six cylinders can do the work of the heart's right side. There is also an oxygenator to pinch-hit for the lungs. The whole machine has been tested on dogs, but there must be a lot more testing done before it satisfies surgeons generally...
...all-out war effort...
...burly Colonel Mohammed Rashad Mehanna, 42, who acts as liaison man between the committee and Aly Maher's cabinet, in which he sits as Minister of Communications. A religious nationalist and supporter of the Moslem Brotherhood, Mehanna's is the voice that urges Naguib toward an all-out dictatorship, anti-British, antiChristian, anti-Jewish. He is opposed by Wing Commander Anwar el Sadat, who urges Naguib to leave political business to those who understand it-or think they do-and to stick to the army...
...Russians have made some gains, but the Kremlin may feel that they are not big enough to warrant the economic, political and military expenditures made. Russia, in fact, faces a kind of international deadlock. The area in which it can now move ahead much farther without risking an all-out war has grown relatively small. But, as General Eisenhower said last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Tyranny must feed on new conquests-or wither." Stalin therefore may want to do something to break the deadlock. There was a rash of speculation about just what that something might be. Main guesses last...
Bitterness. In 1948, his left leg became seriously diseased. It had to be amputated. But Schumacher rose from his sickbed to barnstorm Germany in the country's first free elections since the Weimar Republic. His program: all-out nationalism. His voice, stabbing and snarling, demanded return of the Saar (grabbed by France) and the lands east of the Oder (grabbed by Russia), demanded an end to reparations and occupation. The voters turned him down-by a narrow margin. The task of establishing a new German state "fell not to Socialist Kurt Schumacher but to conservative, commonsensical Christian Democrat Konrad...