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Taking leave of their own problems for a while, five nuclear scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory were discussing the difficulties of Project Mohole, the National Science Foundation's plan to bore through six miles of the earth's crust northeast of Hawaii. What kind of drill would stand...
Through such domestic and White Housekeeping chores, Lyndon moved with profound confidence. But all week he was jostled frequently by the less familiar challenges of foreign affairs. His aides began to refer to the week as a "crisis an hour" era. But, in fact, the crises were mostly small-bore disturbances-such as civilian riots in Panama, a U.S. submarine sent to the China Sea to keep Indonesian President Sukarno in his place, and the ouster of two U.S. diplomats from Tanzania...
...worse off than it already was." And if it was all right to push a hypodermic needle into the bag of waters, why not keep going and push it into the fetus' abdomen? At National Women's Hospital in Auckland, he did just that. Through the bore of the heavy-gauge needle, he then inserted a thin plastic tube. And through this he injected red cells, Rh-negative like the mother's, to replace the baby's own Rh-positive cells, which were being destroyed. A fetus can absorb blood cells directly from its abdominal cavity...
Back in Auckland during Dr. Liley's absence, Surgeon Graham C. Liggins has found a way to insert a catheter through the bore of a hypodermic needle, then anchor it in the peritoneum in such a way that no matter how much the fetus squirms, the catheter will not pull out. Thus it can be left in place for repeated transfusions...
This is not to imply that the play is ever a bore; it is, instead guilefully charged with mesmeric fascinations. It begins with an abrasively effective encounter between two ex-schoolmates who loathe each other. One is a Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer...