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...lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would be unwieldy. Dr. Gibbon must solve this problem before he can close off a human heart and operate on it while the blood flows through a mechanical bypass...
...shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy and partly as a result of Chiang's own spectacular failure to keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement on Asia that has come out of the U.S. State Department in recent months...
Thirsty Sudd. Below Lake Albert lies the Sudd, a vast swamp choked with papyrus and other tall grasses. The White Nile seeps slowly through this tangle, and loses nearly half its water in the process. Engineers plan to cut a canal 186 miles long, to bypass the water-stealing Sudd...
...which had ruled out private traders as buyers and shippers of grain for Europe (TIME, Nov. 29), took another detour around middlemen last week. From now on, it will bypass many commercial bankers, who have been the agents for the distribution of over $1 billion in ECA funds...
...insistence of the Navy, the act precluded real unity in operations by proclaiming that the Navy should keep its air arm and hang on to the Marines (a land force). The Secretaries of the three services were given the specific right-which they freely exercised-to bypass the Defense Secretary and carry their special pleading to the President and the Director of the Budget. They could always directly influence Congress and its committees...