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...Hans H. Buchwald has been promoted to assistant professor of Architechture, and Edward S. Gruson has been appointed, assistant research professor of City Planning in the School of Design...
...Buchwald has been an instructor at Harvard since 1963. Gruson has been assistant to the dean of the Medical School since 1959. He has worked on urban renewal projects in Puerto Rico...
Acting as a sort of Art Buchwald of the Communist world, Czech Humorist M. Honzik recently imagined himself standing outside a Prague grocery. "What are they selling?" asked a passerby. "Onions," replied Honzik. A queue grew at once, and in an hour cleaned the store out of onions. Realizing that he was "on to the greatest discovery of the century, " Honzik hired a crew of old-age pensioners and started a "Rent-a-Queue" business. Wherever the Rent-a-Queue gathered, business immediately soared. Honzik's biggest victory was for "Beastexport," a store that had been stuck with...
...such major surgery Dr. Buchwald has chosen only patients who already had severe heart-artery disease and extremely high levels of blood cholesterol. On the operating table, he locates the ileocecal valve, where the small bowel joins the large, takes a tape measure and starts measuring upward. He measures off 6 ft., or about one-third of the bowel's average total length of 15 to 20 ft. At this point, he sews the bowel tube shut, then makes a cut just above it. He takes the free end of the upper small bowel, pulls it down...
...Simple. The Minneapolis surgeons do not try to make a substitute ileocecal valve; it would be too difficult, they say, and it does not seem to be necessary. The operation is technically simple, but to guard against a rash of premature operations performed unwisely all over the country, Dr. Buchwald emphasized that surgical teams in university medical centers should keep a monopoly on the procedure for a few years. It will take at least a year, he said, to be sure that the operation's effectiveness in lowering blood cholesterol is reasonably permanent, and four or five years...