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...tragedy with devastating consequences for the people of both Viet Nam and the United States. But the choices still seem to me to have been very hard ones. How much is it worth to give a nation a chance? Because we lost we shouldn't beat our breast. It was a close choice with moral factors on both sides. On a wider view, buying time for the nations of Southeast Asia to stabilize their governments was the major reason for our actions. Thus there is faint consolation in the fact that such countries as Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia...
...Sergius, Timothy Cunningham and his perpetual scowl of a face execute the finest performance in the Loeb production. Cunningham brings to the role a pair of eyes that the properties manager could only have obtained from a ping-pong table, and as the part is laden with lugubrious, breast-beating lines, the eyes spend the better share of the last two acts bulging ludicrously from their sockets...
Surgical Revolution. Doctors have been experimenting since the 1950s with techniques to rebuild amputated breasts with grafts of fatty tissues and implants. Their initial efforts were often unsuccessful. The earlier implants, which consisted of chemically inert plastics, were of a firmer consistency than normal breast tissue and were aesthetic failures; the reconstructed breast was often no more than a hard mound that was usually noticeably smaller than the remaining breast. The plastic, in fact, often shrank and became lumpy after implantation...
...since 1969 there has been a dramatic improvement in the quality of breast reconstruction. One reason was the development by Dr. Thomas Cronin of Houston of an improved implant. Another is the introduction of a newer, though relatively little-used implant that overcomes most of the problems of earlier prostheses. It is divided into three compartments that reduce its tendency to shrink or collapse; the implant also has a fuzzy polyurethane covering that helps hold it in place against the chest wall. "It makes a dramatic difference," says Dr. Randolph Guthrie of New York's Memorial Hospital for Cancer...
...does another development, the perfection by Dr. Jon Olaf Strombeck of Stockholm of reduction mammoplasty, a technique for reducing the size of the breast. This can be used in reconstructive surgery to restore a measure of symmetry to the bust...