Word: bloodlessness
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...over. First, Caesar remembers marching into Gaul, and Author Warner does ample justice to the tactics of the Gallic wars (as Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar-the First Triumvirate, the attempt by Pompey and a senatorial faction to curb Caesar's growing authority, the crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of civil war, Pompey's flight and Caesar's mastery of all Italy. By couching...
...patients whose hearts have been damaged by a shutdown in a coronary artery, a Manhattan surgeon last week reported "encouraging progress" with a new and bloodless method of increasing the circulation. Dr. Ivan D. Baronofsky, chief surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, told the New York Heart Association that his technique involves use of X rays to provoke enlargement or multiplication of small, subsidiary arteries in the heart wall so that they will carry more blood...
...General Eisenhower's diplomatic troubleshooter before and during the World War II North Africa invasion, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Robert Daniel Murphy worked with the French underground so brilliantly that he worked out an all-but-bloodless surrender of Algiers. Last week, rated by the same Eisenhower as the U.S.'s No. 1 global troubleshooter, Under Secretary of State Bob Murphy announced his resignation...
Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 58, proved surprisingly lenient last November when, in a bloodless coup, he seized the premiership of Sudan at the head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
...lair-the marble, mahogany, and gold-crusted officers' clubs built as a form of bribery by Pérez Jiménez. He offered not bribery but calming talk: "The armed forces are indispensable for the republic." He insistently hinted that the day of the bloodless, predawn coup had ended...