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Bobby rolled up his sleeves and turned his office into a command post. With him there were Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, several other aides, four maps of Tuscaloosa, a TV set and a radio. An open telephone line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty...
...heart-lung machine (1953), variant machines appeared at several medical centers. One of the most successful was built at the University of Minnesota, where Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei had already gone so far as to use another human being as a heart-lung substitute in a cross-transfusion hookup. Heart-lung machines are now so good that at least one operation once rated impossible has become standard in many medical centers: total correction of Pallet's tetralogy,* the most common cause of blue babies...
Konrad Adenauer has so often changed his mind about retiring as West German Chancellor that his repeated private promise to step down next autumn was usually greeted with the cynical refrain that "fall will be a little late this year." But last week, on a nationwide German television hookup, der Alte at last stated publicly that he would step down "on schedule." Declared Adenauer: "I have often said that I will seek my retirement in October or November 1963. What I have declared will remain unchanged." Bonn politicians took heart. Not once in the program did he mention the word...
...were reluctant to arrest Yun and Huh for fear they would become political martyrs. But the men around Park did not hesitate to reject the opposition demands. Defense Minister Kim Sung Un summoned 160 top military men to Seoul for a strategy meeting, later took to a nationwide radio hookup to speak for them: "We strongly support the present government. There are seeds of uneasiness in the country, and this is not the time to transfer the government to civilians.'' Then, to make the point more emphatically, all 160 officers rode grandly through the streets of Seoul...
...Russians and Red Chinese delegations carried their own squabble into Africa. There were widespread suspicions that the Chinese were to blame when the amplifier for the Russian translation hookup disappeared, was later found in a ditch outside the conference hall. Tit followed tat. Next day the Chinese earphones went dead, and a British engineer summoned to fix them found that the electrical connection had been spiked...