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There, without dissent, the disparate colonies of America at last took the step that severed their 169-year-old political ties with the mother country, proclaiming that they "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." Independence?the process as painful and bloody as birth???represents a unique historic experiment, a visionary gamble that a various people can literally will themselves into a separate political being on a new continent. Boston's John Adams is already predicting exultantly: "The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America...
...years ago Dr. Kane ruptured himself riding horseback. He was nearing 65 and repairing the abdominal tear seemed scarcely worth while. But last week the old surgeon decided that he might just as well mend his rupture. To assist him he called Dr. Howard Martin Cleveland, whose birth??? was one of his very first confinement cases, from Mount Jewett twelve miles away. To the operating room in Kane Summit Hospital he summoned a, reporter and a newsphotographer. While they recorded details he propped himself on an operating table, cleaned the left groin where he was to cut, gave himself...
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