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...want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts by way of off-the-cuff press-conference remarks, the President hedged. But behind a noncommital answer lay a surprising...
...witness before the McClellan committee wore monogrammed silk shirts and tailor-made suits that followed more after George Raft than Brooks Brothers. As he gestured with his carefully manicured hands, he flashed gold cuff links. His handsome face was bronzed by many a day spent under the sun at Santa Anita, Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Only his slightly cauliflowered left ear betrayed the past of Frank William Brewster, 60, West Coast boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story...
...Hitzig: "There are unusual circumstances under which it is not feasible to remove the patient's clothing to record, blood pressure. The answer is a diaphragm (not bell) stethoscope appropriately positioned on the elbow. The auscultatory systolic blood pressure in the elbow can be confirmed by inflating the cuff and palpating the radial pulse at the wrist. When Mr. Krishna Menon collapsed at the U.N., I applied my blood pressure cuff on top of his clothing. There was a reading of 220 mm. I confirmed this blood pressure again by palpation of the radial pulse...
...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...
...hour-long shower of off-the-cuff eloquence, mercurial President Sukarno blamed everything on the existence of opposition parties. "Many opposition leaders oppose the government just for the sake of opposition," complained Sukarno. "Every Cabinet has faced this. No Cabinet has been able to survive long because of the continuing crisis ... I won't say Western democracy is bad. It is simply not suitable for Indonesia...