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...Heavier Yoke. After the war he went back, trusting in the Russians as firmly as he had trusted in France and Britain. The Russians, too, betrayed his optimism. When Klement Gottwald demanded power, Benes might have stopped him, but only at the risk of civil war. Benes gave in to him, as he had to Hitler...
...variation of spinal anesthesia (first used for general surgery at the turn of the century). Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia." Nupercaine is a cocaine substitute. "Heavy" means that it is loaded with a glucose (sugar) solution to make it heavier than the body's spinal fluid. "Saddle block" aptly describes the area anesthetized (the inner thigh and perineum...
Hopeful Future. The new technique has obvious advantages. Because the "heavy" anesthetic is heavier than the spinal fluid, doctors can control its rise in the spine by gravity (by tilting the delivery table until the proper areas are anesthetized). In conventional spinal anesthesia, the anesthetic may rise too far and stop the patient's breathing. Usually only one injection is necessary. It acts quickly (in one to ten minutes), and relief from pain lasts from two to four hours. The patient is so comfortable that, when labor is long, she can eat, drink or smoke...
...heavy-walled Old City, the fight was at close quarters. Cabled TIME Correspondent Don Burke, who was watching the Arab Legionnaires : "A drumfire from the semiautomatics goes on for long periods against a background of mortars, howitzers and heavier guns, as the Arab Legion works over the Jewish positions outside the Old City. When we arrived, the Jews inside the Old City were confined within an area of about 800 square yards, undergoing a constant pounding but replying constantly with semi-automatic fire. Their main vantage points were two synagogues...
...boom has a foundation. Through the islands, hemp and copra production is steeply up; canefields converted to rice and cotton during the war have been turned back to-more profitable sugar; refineries are going full blast; inter-island shipments are heavier than prewar...