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...huff when three of his colonels challenged his right to give the orders. He was already unpopular because of three "dragon's eggs" given him by a superstitious peasant. Draconic rage at their theft supposedly brought floods down upon the land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers under General Thao Ma; they bombed Vientiane and then fled with half the nation's air force-eleven American-built T-28 fighter-bombers-to Thailand...
...nationality. In U.S. hospitals, the preferred approach is to "extinguish" the offending veins by stripping them out in tedious operations that take up to twelve hours and leave the footsore surgeon himself a candidate for varicose veins. In Europe, doctors reach for hypodermics, hoping to harden the veins and cure the trouble quickly with simple injections...
Only a decade ago at Bandung, 29 nonaligned leaders gathered for ten days to prescribe a cure for the cold war's ills. Since then, many of the non-aligned world's leaders have fallen: India's Nehru is dead; Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Indonesia's Sukarno have dropped from supreme power. Indeed, nonalignment itself badly needs redefinition: the former nonaligneds have hardly anyone left to nonalign with...
...Manila's Fort Santiago, where the Japanese Kempei Tai (secret service) tortured him in the hope that he would reveal the whereabouts of Filipino guerrilla groups, Marcos refused to talk. The Japanese pumped him full of water and jumped on his stomach. After eight days of "the water cure," he agreed to lead a patrol to a suspected guerrilla camp south of Manila. In the course of the march, he led the Japanese into a prearranged ambush?his captors died and he escaped into the hills...
Also patients with multiple burns could have dressings painlessly removed without having to be moved to the operating room. The finding could also be used to cure the pain of patients suffering from cancer...