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...shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently-and with welcome elbow room-to close the fibrous covering that encapsulates the liver. After 4 hrs. 40 min., it was over. As a final esthetic touch, the surgeons had divided the twins' common navel so that each girl, after skin grafting, would look normal-if she lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Separation Surgery | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, said that the Masters know the problem exists, but so far "we have not had enough elbow room to try deconversion. From the evidence we have," Owen stated, "there is more room for deconversion." But if a poll can be put in specific terms, he said, "it will be a very useful thing...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Masters, Deans Approve Survey Of Student Wishes on Crowding | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

...Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley, Ill. had no history of heart trouble, so Surgeon Russell Simonetta confidently ordered an anesthetic : cyclopropane, after an intravenous injection of thiopental sodium. Within two hours, Dr. Simonetta, assisted by Dr. Henry Jacobs, had completed his surgery: cleaning and setting an elbow fractured when the patient was pinned under a tractor. Then, as he was about to be wheeled out, the boy's heart stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Spoon & the Cord | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...fate. "Do you know," asked Prosecuting Counsel Maxwell Turner, leaning forward with heavy jowls jutting out, "what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into an admission of memory. Asked to explain a witness' report that he had remarked that both English and French were spoken in Montreal shops, he answered impatiently: "I don't know how I know that. I just know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Mind on Trial | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Giants know that this is the week that may decide the three-way pennant fight: they play two games with Milwaukee, three with Los Angeles. Sad Sam is ready. "The arm's been ten years hurting," he says. "Now I've got control of this crooked elbow, I don't mind when it hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tortured Arm | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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