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...humid midsummer night in Washington. The city slept as best it could. On Capitol Hill, the great dome glowed above an empty plaza. But in its nearly empty chamber, the U.S. Senate was still in session-of a sort. Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, acting as presiding officer, nodded in the chair; Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey and Republican Whip Tom Kuchel slumped at their desks, staring trancelike at nothing. And from his back-row desk, Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire talked and talked and talked, pausing only to sip butterscotch-flavored Metrecal...
...human circulatory system-as likely to kill quickly as a stroke or a heart attack-has no everyday English name. It is pulmonary embolism, in which the flow of used blood is blocked, nearly always by clots, in the pulmonary artery leading from the heart's lower right chamber to the lungs (see diagram). Medicine and surgery have been helpless to deal with severe cases of pulmonary embolism. Now a team of Houston doctors suggests that if victims can be operated upon promptly, a number may be saved with the aid of a heart-lung machine...
Despite Britain's reluctance, the dream of union has survived. And last week Britain finally succumbed to its lure. In a House of Commons so packed that even the chamber gangways were stuffed with squatting M.P.s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan waited for a tense, expectant hush. Then he announced that Great Britain had finally decided to apply to join the Common Market, the three-year-old and amazingly successful economic union of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands...
Last week the BBC admitted the program was a deceit. Composer Zak turned out to be the head of the BBC's chamber music department, Hans Keller, and accomplice Pianist Susan Bradshaw. They got the idea, they said, as they "were listening to the faintly melodious sounds produced by the moving of chairs." Said Miss Bradshaw: "We dragged together all the instruments we could find and went around the studio banging them.'' She was pleased with the results. "It was a serious hoax," she said. "That fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine is a reflection...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Peace Corps occupies three floors of a fairly typical, utterly unimaginative office building in downtown Washington. Through square windows set regularly into the light gray stone you can see Connecticut Avenue and a few of the neighbors--the Chamber of Commerce and the ICA. About two blocks away, across a park that is the home of a number of pigeons, squirrels, and a rather weatherbeaten statue of Andrew Jackson astride his favorite thoroughbred, is the White House...