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...Jordan, the supposedly pro-Egyptian Parliament voted to abrogate Jordan's treaty with Britain, then in a last-minute circus of second thoughts decided the idea might not be practical. Without Britain's $33.6 million annual subsidy, Jordan would be strapped for funds to keep even its Parliament going...
...recit in which nothing is final--least of all the conclusion. But now that a horde of famous individuals has brought its talents to bear upon Candide, the spectacle is appalling. The new musical is not like the old book or other musicals or anything, except maybe a bad circus...
...valuable for studying the blood pressure inside the heart, and for injecting radiopaque dyes to get X rays of the heart, including abnormalities. But his discovery was ignored in Germany. Older men, who should have been wiser, scoffed at Forssmann's catheterization of the heart as a circus stunt. Beginning in the early '30s two Columbia University researchers, Dr. Dickinson W. Richards and French-born Dr. Andre Cournand, read of Forssmann's experiment and developed a way to use it both for research and diagnosis. They showed that it could be used in studies of shock...
...CIRCUS DEAL is brewing between John Ringling North and Sports Promoter Bill Veeck, onetime owner of St. Louis Browns, who wants to keep big top operating by buying North's Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey. Veeck's group reportedly offered $2,500,000 for performers, tents and animals, but North wants more...
Another outstanding first contributor to the new college was the famed circus owner, P.T. Barnum. In 1882 Barnum gave Tufts a museum and from time to time provided it with animal skins to be stuffed for exhibit. Then in 1885 Barnum's most colossal specimen and the world's largest elephant in captivity, Jumbo, was tragically killed by a railroad train. As usual, Barnum promised the elephant's hide to Tufts. But first he took it on a tour of Europe, where twice as many people paid to see Jumbo stuffed (as compared to his earnings when he was alive...