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Though Dr. Wangensteen pioneered in gastrectomies, did hundreds in 35 years, he was never fully satisfied with the results. Too many patients had such severe and persistent discomfort that though they kept on taking antacids freely, they still did not get enough relief. They were forced to eat little and often. But while treating patients for bleeding stomach ulcers. Surgeon Wangensteen and his research team got an idea. Chilling the stomach checked both the flow of digestive juices and bleeding. Why not deepen the chilling to the freezing stage, knock out the stomach's acid factory more completely...
...ready to try the technique in man. Now, one of Dr. Wangensteen's ulcer patients, who has had no food for 15 hours to make sure that his stomach is empty, sits in a chair and gets a local anesthetic sprayed into his throat. He then feels little discomfort as the surgeon shoves a rubber balloon down his throat, through his gullet and into his stomach. Cold absolute alcohol drips into the balloon through attached tubing until the patient feels his stomach distended, as though after a heavy meal. Then he lies on a table and pumping begins...
...FRENCHMEN. "We have a tendency to place ourselves as absolute criteria in the center of the universe and see anyone else as a departure from the normal. But, what is a Frenchman? A being with an ingrained sense of discomfort, mocking individualism, contemptuous, revolting against any incorporation into the mass...
...English invented railways, and have never quite recovered from the pride and guilt of their creation. Nowhere else on earth does rundown rolling stock excite such tantrums or such tenderness. Britons venerate the shabby Victorian discomfort of antiquated first-class carriages; they despair if the diesel hauling them pants into a station 40 seconds late. When a moneylosing branch line closes down, the island is roiled with grief. Cried the headline over a lengthy London Times story last year: THE TIDDLYDIKE BRANCH LINE DIES TODAY. Sorrow had hardly faded before British Railways raised fares to pay for other uneconomical Tiddlydikes...
...politician's discomfort did not seem to bother Ted Kennedy, who announced less than six weeks after he turned 30, the legal age requirement for a Senator. While two police sergeants and a bevy of patrolmen directed traffic outside his nine-room house near the Charles River, he strode into his living room with his blonde, tanned wife Joan at his side. A young man held up large cue cards, and Ted faced a battery of microphones and television and newsreel cameras. Said Ted: "I make this decision in full knowledge of the obstacles I will face, the charges...