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...railroads were no longer able to funnel sufficient food into the cities, and bread lines in the capital of Petrograd (now Leningrad) grew longer each day. The orgies and intrigues of the Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill ambiance of discontent and deprivation that, 50 years ago this week, a revolution that began almost casually in Petrograd swept out the Czar and changed the course of Russian and modern history...
...surgeons. With the heart exposed (see diagram), Dr. Gerbode stripped away part of its outer sac (pericardium) for later use. Next he sewed up the ductus arteriosus where it joined the pulmonary artery. Then, with his patient connected to the heart-lung pump, he set its heat-exchanger to chill Mrs. Vanella's blood to 68° F., to reduce the brain's oxygen demands...
...pipeline leading from its rigs in the Sarir to Marsa Hariga. Running 320 miles, the 34-in., multimillion-dollar line could ultimately carry almost 1,000,000 bbl. at a clip. It is buried six feet beneath the dunes in order to keep the oil liquid during the chill desert nights. The pipeline runs past a British airbase- and deliberately close to the Egyptian border. If necessary, British soldiers will thus be better able to guard against sabotage...
First to feel the chill was No. 4-ranked Princeton, the Tiger of the Ivy League and favored by 40 points over Dartmouth, a team it had already whipped 116-42. Dartmouth went into a stall at the opening tap-off; not a shot was taken for ten minutes, only 30 were taken in the entire game. Princeton won, 30-16, but Dartmouth Coach Dave Gavitt insisted: "If our shooting percentage had been better, we might have beaten them...
...General Motors had its second best year in history, even though its 1966 sales fell 6.8% behind 1965's record. Dollar sales eased only 2.4%, but profits, beset by higher costs, slumped 16% to $1.8 billion. Ford, too, felt the chill: profits down 12% to $621 million despite record sales. Looking ahead, G.M.'s board gave 1967 a vote of confidence last week, maintained the company's 85? quarterly stock dividend...