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DIED. Werner Forssmann, 74, Nobel-prize-winning German surgeon; of a heart attack; in Schopfheim, West Germany. Forssmann's 1956 prize recognized a feat he had performed 27 years earlier as an intern: defying a then prevalent medical taboo against tampering with the living heart, he threaded a thin tube through the vein of his left arm until it reached his right ventricle. The catheterization technique he thus pioneered became a standard tool in treating cardiac problems...
...everybody's favorite doctor never dissected a frog in med school, never made rounds as an intern, never even earned an M.D. degree. No matter. When Actor Alan Alda, 43, known to millions of televiewers as Army Captain Hawkeye Pierce of the Korean War-era 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H), spoke at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement last week, he was absolutely right in telling the class, "In some ways you and I are alike. We both study the human being. We both try to reduce suffering. We've both...
Alan Soudakoff is a junior majoring in economics. Last summer he worked as an intern for Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal [D-N.Y.], researching business influence in politics...
Often as not, the men who hold the stars in their places are Jon Bell, an intern studying to be a planetarium director, and Joe Doti, engineer. Except for the subdued glow from green and red console lights, they work in darkness. "It only takes a few weeks to learn how to operate, but you must know the basics of astronomy," says Bell. He is whispering as the display goes on, and his tone suggests an acolyte trying not to disturb a service. Every time he does a show, he admits, he feels a shiver synapsing down his spine...
...those revelations, and many more, are contained in a 13-page White House memo that was uncovered by a U.P.I, correspondent last week when he inquired whether the President plays canasta. The list was compiled in the summer of 1977 by a student intern who was assigned to the White House Office of Media Liaison. Why? Well, these are the kinds of questions often asked by reporters. And that, in turn, is a kind of commentary on the press. Many reporters would rather call the White House on such trivial questions than leaf through the book from which most...