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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...
...Menon's flow of words but a single nyet uttered by Russia's taciturn Arkady Sobolev called a halt to the U.N.'s efforts to mediate in Kashmir. By casting the Soviet Union's 79th *veto in the Security Council, Sobolev effectively killed a resolution, jointly sponsored by the U.S., Cuba. Britain and Australia, to send Council President Gunnar Jarring of Sweden to Kashmir as a step "toward the settlement of the dispute." The resolution did not mention plebiscite, but noted in passing that former U.N. resolutions calling for demilitarization and a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...Council room on the strong arms of two associates. His doctor said he was "a very sick man" who. had been working too hard while sustaining himself on "about 30 cups of tea a day, absorbing all of the salt in his body." Once back in his seat, Menon expressed a desire to speak for ten minutes and promptly launched into a speech that lasted just short of an hour...
Next day, with Russia abstaining, the Security Council adopted by a vote of 10 to 0 a flaccid resolution to send President Jarring to Kashmir simply to look things over and make a report. "Mr. Jarring," said Mr. Menon, "would always be welcome in India as would everyone else," but there could be no talk of "high policy matters" at least until after the Indian elections...