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Dwelling at length on foreign policy issues, he accused the Eisenhower administration of "pouring down the drain" the good will which was created abroad by previous Democratic administrations...
...Hospital, Neurosurgeon Eugene Spitz, 37, tried running a tube direct from baby Charles' head to his abdomen. It worked only for a few days at a time, then another operation was needed to clean it. To the father Dr. Spitz explained that he would like to drain the brain fluid into the jugular vein. But this would need a valve (to prevent back flow by the blood), and so far no satisfactory valve had been devised-they all had a tendency to clog...
...valve into the opening, and closed the skin over it. The valve worked. In less than two weeks Charles Holter went home. Last week, nearing his first birthday, he was still doing well. Though fluid might continue to collect for the rest of his life, it could drain off through the valve, which would stay in place. Pediatricians, who had just heard Dr. Spitz's report, were hopeful that his technique and Holter's valve would be the answer to hundreds of cases of this type of hydrocephalus each year in the U.S. John Holter quit his technician...
...primary result: Congressman Tom Lane, only two weeks out of a federal prison, where he served a four-month term for income-tax evasion (TIME, Sept. 17), easily won renomination over four opponents in the Seventh Congressional District. The Democratic fear: Lane's name on the ticket may drain votes away from an otherwise strong slate...
...burst of inflation, he feared, would shake foreign confidence in the pound, and bring a new drain on the nation's gold reserve. In his drive to control credit, Mack the Knife has raised the government's rate on bank loans to 5½%, the highest level since 1932 Depression days, and twice the discount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...