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...iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died, on his forty-fourth birthday, unable because of his paralysis...
...with the "stupid" girl he had imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel." But the fuse fizzled. One violent passion for a majestic Italian beauty spanned a decade during which he never saw the "sublime wench." After eleven years he finally noted: "On September 21, at half-past eleven, I won the victory I had so long desired." It took him a few more years...
...long last, the fuse was pulled from the explosive problem of Trieste. In London this week representatives of Italy and Yugoslavia would put their signatures to a settlement dividing the coveted Free Territory of Trieste between them and granting Yugoslavia facilities in its seaport. The settlement was a triumph of patient U.S. diplomacy, topped by the personal intervention of President Eisenhower with the right move at the right time...
Since becoming President, Pusey has staged a continuous and vigorous fight to fuse new blood into the Divinity School and secure financial support for it. "There is a feeling of great expectancy," he said, "on the part of many as a new year and a new period in the history of the School begins here today...
...slapstick comedy at La Locha was the fuse which exploded an attempt at counterrevolution in Guatemala last week...