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MORE THAN HALF OF ALL FATAL INFECTIONS ARE ACQUIRED INSIDE A HOSPITAL. The extent of this danger and the complex, rigorous measures needed to minimize it preoccupied the American College of Surgeons' clinical congress last week in Atlantic City. See MEDICINE...
INCREASED U.S.-U.S.S.R. TRADE: The Administration and Congress may relax some restrictions against U.S. trade with Russia, said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, if Khrushchev follows through on his promise to reopen negotiations on the unpaid lend-lease debt, shows good faith by some reasonable payment on an obligation that the U.S. has already written down from $2.6 billion to $800 million. Moscow also published a fact that U.S. sources politely kept off the record for a week: Khrushchev asked industriailsts and financiers at a Washington dinner for loans to finance Soviet purchases...
...Signed without comment the $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriations bill-cut by the Congress $704 million below his request-which carried a rider extending for two years the life of the Civil Rights Commission...
...view, seemed truly formidable. In the greatest landslide since 1936, the democrats gained 15 seats in the Senate and 47 in the House, giving them nearly a two thirds majority in each house, and it was confidently predicted that this preshadowed a new era of immoderate liberalism in Congress. What emerged, however, was far closer to moderate dullness...
...failure of the liberals--their direct defeat in housing, airport, education, and labor legislation along with their inability to inaugurate any comprehensive program--brings up the perennial questioning of the organization of Congress and the major parties, but it also calls into question the liberal ideology. Complaints that complacency among the voters merely found reflection in Congress may perhaps be sufficient explanation, but the voters evidently were not complacent last fall. The appearance maybe that a prosperous America prefers immoblisme to dynamism. Professor Schlesinger may argue that liberalism is cyclical in this country but it had better find a solid...