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Many times, South American doctors have asked Jacobs to connect them with American surgeons who can provide advice in difficult operations. Surgeons at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, contacted by Jacobs, helped an Ecuadoran doctor in his attempt to save the severed hand of a young sailor...
...newspaper editors of this state?" he asked in an editorial. "The very guardians of our intellectual outposts, the very men who should be sounding the warning against radicalism, import this poison to our springs and beg us to sit and sup with them. Birchites and Communists are probably bent upon the same goals, the main one of which is the destruction of confidence in our Government. I, too, consider myself a conservative. I stand for the old-fashioned principles of this country and will fight for them, but that doesn't include harboring Birchites or Communists or any other...
Tears streamed down the cheeks of Moroccan Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir as he bent to kiss the hand of his monarch. King Hassan II had just expressed complete confidence in the hawk-faced general, and angrily denied French charges that Oufkir had had anything to do with the mysterious kidnaping and supposed murder of Leftist Leader Mehdi Ben Barka. All very stirring, but on closer inspection it developed that the tears in Oufkir's eyes were caused not by gratitude but rather by a cataract usually hidden behind his sunglasses...
Time was when Indians used to tie the legs of a captive to separate bent saplings, then let the trees spring erect to tear the poor fellow in two. Last week modern Braves were in a legal quandary that could have the same sapling effect. Although a Georgia superior court has ordered baseball's National League Braves to play their 1966 games in Atlanta, a Wisconsin circuit court ordered the team to make plans to continue playing in Milwaukee...
...HANS HAACKE, 29, follows the natural German bent for scientific phenomena. At 18, he painted boxy Bauhaus abstractions, but this art seemed too rooted in place. "We now know that there is nothing stabile. For centuries, people tried to convey motion. Symbols, snapshot representations, impressionism. All this was based on a convention everyone understood. But it was never the reality of motion. I want reality." Haacke made sealed Plexiglas boxes with enough water inside to evaporate in the sun and then drip in random patterns down the sides. Next he tried what he calls "hourglasses," something like stereo-kaleidescopes, which...