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...reference to the March 4 picture showing Krishna Menon having his blood pressure taken after he collapsed at the U.N.: next time Krishna Menon is asked to pose with his doctor for a picture, he should first remove his coat and roll up his sleeve. I'll be damned if anyone, even an Indian yogi, could hear through all that wool...
...remove the patient's clothing to record, blood pressure. The answer is a diaphragm (not bell) stethoscope appropriately positioned on the elbow. The auscultatory systolic blood pressure in the elbow can be confirmed by inflating the cuff and palpating the radial pulse at the wrist. When Mr. Krishna Menon collapsed at the U.N., I applied my blood pressure cuff on top of his clothing. There was a reading of 220 mm. I confirmed this blood pressure again by palpation of the radial pulse...
...like your needless needling of Krishna Menon over the Kashmir affair in the U.N. [Feb. 4]. Not that I favor the Indians in the Kashmir question; on the contrary, I think they are wrong. But what apparently you do not realize is that TIME is unnecessarily unfriendly and, sometimes, insulting to India. Use your enormous influence to further good will abroad toward...
After four days of this, India's ailing V. K. Krishna Menon introduced an Algeria-style compromise resolution calling vaguely for negotiations "in accord with the principles ... of the U.N. Charter." Save for Afghanistan and Panama, both of whom abstained, every nation in the U.N. Assembly pounced, 76 to o, on this chance to sweep Cyprus back .under the carpet. "Afghanistan," mused Menon. "Well, they have a somewhat similar quarrel with Pakistan. As for Panama, I guess I was rude to the Panamanian delegate...
After, an impassioned hour and 40 minutes in defense of India's seizure of disputed Kashmir, India's waspish V. K. Krishna Menon, the United Nations' champion long-distance speaker, collapsed in a heap one day last week and had to be rushed off to the medical clinic...