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Burke's conservatism was universal in its application. In one of the most famous of all trials, he prosecuted Warren Hastings for colossal graft and misrule as Britain's Governor-General of India. But what Burke, the Anglican, detested most in Hastings' record was the Governor-General's roughshod trampling of Hindu tradition and religious ceremonial. Burke feared that Hastings, by destroying India's tradition, might destroy the soul of a civilization...
There was nothing to do but cut out the length of distorted aorta and replace it with an arterial graft-an operation which was unthinkable until a few years ago. Recently, however, with the setting up of artery banks, more and more daring surgical feats of this type have succeeded. In last week's A.M.A. Journal, the two Houston doctors reported on what they believe is the first successful operation on an aneurysm high in the chest...
...they stitched a 6-in. piece of aorta taken from another patient, a Negro who had died of injuries a few days earlier. It took 45 minutes from the time the clamps shut off the blood flow to the lower organs for the surgeons to stitch the graft in place and remove the clamps, letting the blood flow resume. (The whole operation took 4½ hours.) The sheriff's brain was never threatened, as it received its normal blood supply from a higher-branching artery. And the interruption in blood flow did not even damage his kidneys. This, said...
...very young baby. Last week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind...
...match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft or waste or human error. But in sum, they add up to inefficiency and delay. After listening to the week's testimony, Senator Byrd summed up the picture as he saw it: "I believe the record shows clearly that there were shortages in Korea. I think it shows that...