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Relaxing in the White House living quarters one night last week, the President answered a phone call from an aide in the executive wing. The message: Ike's ailing eldest brother Arthur, 71, who retired from the banking and grain-financing business in 1956, had just collapsed and died of a heart attack in his home in Kansas City, Kans. Moments later, the President's youngest brother* Milton president of Johns Hopkins University, phoned from Baltimore with the same news...
...year-old patient, a Pekinese named Duke, with his lungs so awash that the least exertion set him to puffing and wheezing. The diagnosis was obvious: congestive heart failure. Dr. Sax injected a diuretic to help clear the fluid from Duke's lungs, prescribed half a grain of digitalis daily for the heart. To ease Duke's last days and his owner's anguish, Dr. Sax sent an oxygen tent to the house for use in wheezing attacks, kept him dosed with cortisone. Duke wheezed through 2½ more years, lived to be almost...
AFGHANISTAN. This small (pop. 12 million) but strategic country has accepted $145 million in Soviet credits, now ranks among the five top recipients of Russian aid. The bulk of the Soviet money has gone to finance arms purchases, hydroelectric projects, grain elevators, a flour mill and a bakery. The Russians' most conspicuously successful gesture in winning Afghan good will was paving the streets of Kabul-a project that had been turned down by the U.S. as economically unproductive. Despite signs that its rulers are worried at the prospect of sinking too deep into the Soviet embrace, nearly half...
...Gains. 1957's triumphs may not be permanent for Nikita Khrushchev. In the Middle East. Russia's callous manipulation of Syria for its own ends alarmed as many Arabs as it impressed. In the satellites, Poland's army is still restive. At home, the virgin lands Khrushchev plowed for grain are Russia's dust bowl; in 1957 they yielded a much lower harvest than the year before. At the same time that he promised a lot more housing and clothing, he boosted the goals of Communism's sacred heavy industry yet higher; by September he was forced to postpone...
Against the Grain. In Green Bay, Wis., Police Radio Dispatcher Harold Compton, getting a complaint that two cars were going the wrong way on a one-way street, asked Car 44 to check, got the reply: "I'm one of those cars, and I'm pushing the other...