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...more smoothly than in similar past crises. As his last official act before being wheeled into the operating room, Reagan at 10:32 a.m. Saturday signed letters authorizing Vice President George Bush to "discharge powers and duties in my stead commencing with the administration of anesthesia," which began 1 hr. 16 min. later. Though Reagan injected some caveats about the application of the 25th Amendment, the message marked the first official transfer of power from a President to his Vice President in the nation's history. Even after he reassumed his official powers almost eight hours later, a system...
Fortunately, there proved to be no need for more sweeping measures. The operation, which took 2 hr. 53 min., went smoothly. A team of six doctors headed by Navy Captain Dale Oller, chief of general surgery at Bethesda, snipped out a 2-ft.-long portion of Reagan's colon, the section containing the 2-in.-long polyp, and sewed the intestine back together. "Our patient, our President is doing very, very, very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during...
...producers shrink from a whopping price tag if the material is strong enough. Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, a series that was a milestone of cultural-TV programming between 1958 and 1973, has been released by Kultur as a nine-disc, 25-hr.-long set. Price: $149.95. It's selling "phenomenally," says Hedlund...
Clocking in at 3 hr. 45 min.-- three-quarters of an hour longer than the old test--the new exam, which debuted on March 12, is not just a measure of verbal and mathematical proficiency; it's a test of endurance. Kids are given two 5-min. breaks, which they may use for refueling. Ned Johnson, an SAT tutor who sat for the new exam himself, says he saw kids running out into the hallways and "stuffing their faces...
...hr. Length of time within which the FBI is required by law to destroy the record of a gun-ownership application after it has been approved...