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...September 1961 Castro cops burst into a room in Havana's Seguro Medico (Medical Insurance) Building. They found three Americans-Daniel Carswell of Eastchester, N.Y., Eustace Danbrunt of Baltimore, and Edmund Taransky of New York City-surrounded by electronic listening devices. All three were agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. And they were bugging the newly opened Havana headquarters of Hsinhua, a Communist Chinese "news" agency. The CIA men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in Castro's dungeons...
Proceeds will be used to meet the $2500 goal set last October by the Student Council. The six charities are the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fund, Recording for the Blind, United Negro College Fund, MEDICO, KA-JWA (Farmer's Vocational School of Inchon, Korea), and the Foster Parent Fund, which sponsors a Vietnamese orphan...
...official statement of the Royal Caroline Medico-Chirurgical Institute (which awards the prize), the Harvard researcher was praised for "experimental skill...of an extremely high order." Specifically, the statement cited von Bekesy's "discoveries concerning the physical mechanisms of stimulation within the cochlea," which is a part of the inner...
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...doctor concluded that the young seaman had severe tonsillitis. If the case had been more complicated, he would have consulted one of the 50-odd specialists always on call for CIRM (Centre Internazionale Radio-Medico), but he felt competent to handle this one himself. A reference book on the duty desk showed what drugs a Liberian freighter is required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram...