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...behind the gun was Georgetown University's Neurosurgeon John P. Gallagher, who wanted a safe way to treat aneurysms in the brain. Aneurysms are like blisters in tubeless tires: at a weak spot in its wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops...
Spaghetti & Seminars. After work, the interns go on gobbling up political atmosphere in a college version of the Washington cocktail circuit. They turn quaint Georgetown houses into lively dormitories, spend their thin weekly Government salaries (about $50) feeding each other wine-and-spaghetti dinners, and vie to impress each other-and each other's dates-with the latest poop from the office. On hot news, they like to boast, the intern network scoops the wire services by at least three hours. But they choke up dutifully on classified information, which doubly helps to promote what one Yaleman jokingly calls...
...shaking up their elders in the best tradition of youthful inquisitiveness. Two or three times a week, the students pile into seminar rooms to shoot sticky questions at Capitol eminences, most of whom enjoy the battle and are likely to accept an invitation to continue it over spaghetti in Georgetown...
PAUL M. MEADER Georgetown, Mass...
...GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Bob Hope, comedian L.H.D...