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...plan); but nothing less will keep pace with the growth and hopes of India's population. Telling his followers that "it will take many five-year plans before we can bring about a Socialist society," Nehru realistically last week persuaded parliamentary hotheads to reject a measure which would clamp a $5,000-a-year ceiling on income. "Socialism does not mean a dead level of poverty," he snapped...
This gave the surgeons a "dry field" and a heart at rest. With deft scalpel, Surgeon Effler slit open the flaccid right ventricle, drew the remaining blood from it, and located the opening in the septum. He sutured the sides of the hole together. Then he took the clamp off the aorta and let blood from the artificial heart flow back into nature's heart. The potassium citrate soon washed out and-with no artificial prodding-the heart resumed its normal rhythm even before Effler could finish closing the ventricle wall. Last week, nine weeks after the operation...
...most businesses, the most efficient company usually makes the most money. But planemakers feel that the stress on profits in congressional investigations tends to punish the most efficient. And with all the harping on profits, they fear that the Renegotiation Board will clamp down still harder, squeeze earnings lower, and hurt the industry when the U.S. most needs to speed its technical advance...
...restrict the spending spree, Rab Butler slapped restrictions on installment buying of autos, large appliances, etc., warned banks to clamp down on loans, appealed to private businessmen to postpone capital spending that would not boost exports...
...Portable Sickroom. To avoid Hamyopia, Chekhov traveled widely. But the Russian hinterland rarely sent Chekhov into those flights of mystic brotherhood common to 19th century Russian intellectuals. He approached it with a clothespin ever ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera...