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...Public Salvation." It had been a masterful performance so far. When Katanga's bulky ex-President returned to the Congo last month, it seemed incredible that he could hope to form a government. Cursed as a tool of Belgium's copper-producing Union Minie´re, accused by some of the murder of Patrice Lumumba, and driven out of the country by the force of United Nations arms, Tshombe appeared to have nothing in his favor...
...blood clot, but with a clot the problem is how to make it and how to keep it from traveling and causing still more brain damage. Dr. Mullan and fellow workers noted that not only does electricity promote clotting, but also, unaccountably, so does a piece of copper, cadmium or beryllium, even without an electric current to help the process...
...advantage of forming a clot quickly. This constitutes a sort of neurosurgical first aid for the aneurysm patient, enough to tide him over the first and most dangerous days after a hemorrhage. But clots formed in this way are apt not to be permanent, whereas if a piece of copper is implanted in the aneurysm and left there for a week, without an electric current, it forms a more permanent clot. So Dr. Mullan's team is now combining the two methods: forming a quick clot by electricity, and then leaving in place a copper needle inserted through...
Flaming but unflappable, Clouseau rips off his trench coat, strides to the window and-wham! The chief inspector (Herbert Lorn) bursts through the bedroom door, the bedroom door clouts Clouseau in the suffix, Clouseau takes off as though there were lead as well as copper in his alloy. When next seen he is digging himself out of a gravel driveway two stories below and cringing as the chief inspector scornfully adds insult to injury. "Clouseau!" the old brute bellows. "You're off the case...
...recent anti-merger decisions: "If concentration is already great, the importance of preventing even slight increases in concentration is correspondingly great." Justice Department lawyers believe that the decision will help win similar cases against Kaiser Aluminum, which hopes to acquire U.S. Rubber's aluminum fabricating plant, and Kennecott Copper, which intends to merge with the cable-making Okonite...