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...found that abnormally high pressure predisposes a person to strokes, especially of the hemorrhagic type. In such cases it would be dangerous to use anticoagulant drugs (because of the risk of further hemorrhage); the Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that they could lower the blood pressure with hypotensive drugs, arid later use anticoagulants safely to minimize the risk of subsequent strokes...
...ticket. But Knowland and his delegation were pledged to back Earl Warren for President-and Bill Knowland has never broken his word. At Chicago, disturbed by reports that his Senate Colleague Richard Nixon was trying to get the California delegation to defect to Ike. Knowland called a secret caucus arid faced his delegation shaking with anger. "I just want everyone in this room to know," he rumbled, "that never in history has any delegate ever violated his pledge and been respected again." There were no defections: California stayed solid for Warren through the first (and only) ballot. Then Bill Knowland...
Since he became boss of KLZ in 1941, Terry, a University of Missouri journalism graduate arid onetime advertising salesman, has let nothing stand in the way of his devotion to what he calls "electronic journalism." Terry's news staff, headed by Sheldon Peterson, gives KLZ listeners the most extensive coverage in the Rocky Mountain area. A KLZ news editor once led a search party into a mountain blizzard to rescue seven persons marooned in the Rockies. When President Eisen hower suffered his heart attack, KLZ supplied the early coverage for the entire CBS network. And KLZ's mobile...
...striking force for airborne action should a lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight...
...Sparingly distilled by a secret, century-old formula in a quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Jack Daniel's has never tried to crash mass markets, never old more than 300,000 cases a year. What makes Jack Daniel's so special is its clean, slightly smoky taste arid its smooth richness in the gullet. The secret goes back to 1866, when Jack Daniel, a mall (5 ft. 5 in.) tidy young man in 'rock coat and fawn-colored vest started to make whisky. Using spring water free of iron traces (murderous to whisky), he added the finest...