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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many were experienced huntsmen, but the high price of meat had also attracted fledglings to the field. When the season ended, the bag was the biggest in Colorado's history: 68,000 mule deer, 12,000 elk, 99 bears - along with countless cattle, horses and sheep, 17 dead and 13 wounded hunters...
Defiance in the Desert. Would the Jews accept the order? There was no sign of it in Tel Aviv. Cried one government spokesman: "Absolutely astounding ... a shameful proposal." The U.N., he said, had come "dangerously close to the prerogatives . . . held by God of quickening the dead." Even Israel's gentle, scholarly President Chaim Weizmann was moved to truculence. "No force on earth," he declared, "can remove the Jews from the Negeb, short of carrying them bodily-and they are a heavy burden...
...tribute unique in British history, Franklin Roosevelt had become the first head of a foreign state whose name joined those of Britain's illustrious dead of seven centuries. * The tablet in the abbey is considered even more of a tribute than the statue of Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square visited by hundreds of Britons every...
...first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing. Stock-exchange members stopped their trading to sing God Save...
Doctors have hesitated to use the plumber's method because they feared that peeling off the inner lining (endothelium), along with the dead tissue, calcium and fatlike substances, might lead to dangerous clotting. A team of five French doctors, headed by Dr. Louis Bazy, chief surgeon of Paris' St. Louis Hospital, has now apparently learned the trick. Dr. Bazy's team splits open the artery (in extreme cases for as much as two feet), scrapes out the stoppage, sews it up again. In a few minutes nature deposits white corpuscles along the wall of the scraped...