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...Senate's self-proclaimed liberals number about 45, including a few Republicans, and on paper they should comprise the upper chamber's strongest voting bloc, and perhaps even its conscience. But in practice, they are effective only in their ability to mess things...
...Wolfgang is not so well known as the Berlin Philharmonic's famous conductor, Herbert, but to Austrian and Bavarian chamber music fans he is every bit his younger brother's equal. For the past six years, he has blessed the countryside with his proudest achievement: the world's only traveling organ ensemble...
After four years in Europe on three different fellowships, the young American composer Benjamin Lees was fast approaching the day when he would become a public trust. He labored quietly over his compositions, as first Guggenheim, then Copley, then Fulbright supported him. He wrote a symphony and some chamber music, but the peak of his abstraction came in 1958, when he spent eight months writing a violin concerto. Lacking a virtuoso to play it, he stuffed it away in a steamer trunk...
Last week Dr. Bernhard told the Society of University Surgeons meeting in Seattle that four blue children have had operations in the chamber. Two died of complications. But two who were suffering from one of the most surgically forbidding of all congenital defects, transposition of the great vessels (aorta and pulmonary artery), are doing well after palliative operations...
...Bernhard works in an 8 ft. by 10 ft. compartment of the chamber, with an assistant surgeon, an anesthesiologist and a nurse. After an operation, the patient and surgical team are decompressed even more carefully than current Navy practice calls for; the process of surfacing from a "dry dive'' that reaches 80 ft., or almost 3½ times normal atmospheric pressure (about 50 Ibs. per sq. in.), is stretched out over an hour. Says Surgeon Gross: "Operating under pressure gives us one golden hour to achieve results impossible under normal conditions. We are going to hear...