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...Canadienne. The Van Doos have been on a U.N. alert for the past three years as a "fire-brigade force ready to go anywhere," have been trained in such niceties as mob control, guerrilla operations and peace-patrol techniques, and carry such special equipment as wooden batons and steel mesh shields as protection against stone-throwing demonstrators...
...John R. Lewis Jr. reported good results and a minimum of side effects with a combination kit introduced last year by Dr. Thomas D. Cronin of Houston. It consists of a Silastic (silicone plastic) bag filled with Silastic gel and attached to a backing of Dacron mesh. The viscous gel has more nearly the consistency of natural breast tissue than previous synthetics...
...create a pocket between the breast and the muscle of the chest wall to which it is normally attached. The uplift device is inserted in the pocket, with its Dacron backing placed against the muscle. Thus the tissues of the breast itself do not come into contact with any mesh or sponge material into which they could grow-only with the impermeable surface of the Silastic bag. A further advantage is that the soft tissue of the natural breast is outward; it feels normal to the patient and facilitates a doctor's examination for cysts or tumors...
...endless reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions. The 650 youngsters who attend Saigon's American school were transported in Navy buses with steel-mesh window guards, and with armed Navy enlisted men riding shotgun. MPs patrolled the school grounds and roof with Armalite and M-14 rifles held in raised position. Barbed-wire barricades went up in front of the U.S. embassy and other key U.S. installations...
...since Forrestal's death, people have wondered why such a splendid career came to such a squalid end. For James Forrestal was an outstanding public servant, a key figure in the crucial postwar years. He was indeed a man of parts, but whose parts did not seem to mesh. He was, on the one hand, tough and commanding; on the other, sensitive and guilt-ridden. Now Arnold Rogow, a political science professor at Stanford, has skillfully pieced the parts together in a first biography of Forrestal...