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Ever since Lord Lister rigged up an apparatus to squirt a curtain spray of phenol around his operating table, surgeons have worried about bacteria flying through the air and into a patient's wound. Trouble is, there has been next to no information about how many germs, of what kinds, are in the operating room's air, or-more importantly-about where the bugs come from...
South & Southwest. This is almost completely Goldwater territory. Says Alabama's 32-year-old State Chairman John Grenier, who masterminded a near upset of veteran Democratic Senator Lister Hill last fall: "I figure Goldwater won't lose 15 [out of about 325] delegate votes in the South. Everything's coming up roses." Adds Grenier: "Even if we wanted someone else, we couldn't go up to the convention and sell out our people. They want Gold-water." Says Oklahoma's Republican Governor Henry Bellmon: "I know personally of perhaps half a dozen people in this state who are for Rockefeller...
Amid the bulletins that torrented forth, the most astonishing was that Democrat Lister Hill, veteran of 25 years in the U.S. Senate, was running behind his Republican opponent, a political novice named James D. Martin. And, of all places, in Alabama-where no Republican had come within miles of winning major office since Reconstruction...
Veteran Sen. Lister Hill (D.-Ala.) and Sen. Ernest Gruening (D.-Alaska) finally won the 67th and 68th seats late yesterday morning. In Alabama, Hill fought Republican James D. Martin right to the wire, and most political observers are amazed by the smallness the long-time Senator's margin of victory...