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False Manifests. Castro's first guns came from the Belgians, whose enterprising arms salesman showed him the strong, light FN (Fabrique Nationale) 7.62-mm. rifle used by NATO. So anxious was Castro to get the rifles that he ordered 25,000 at double the usual $75 price, plus 52 million cartridges, 2,000 new 9-mm. pistols, hundreds of machine guns and more than 100,000 artillery and mortar shells. At least twelve ships delivered 75% of the order before "friendly warnings" to Belgium by the U.S. forced a halt...
Simple Dexterity. Prime element in he Sones-Shirey method is the catheter, a snakelike, 31-in. tube that tapers in diameter from 3.2 mm. down to 1.6 mm. at its tip. The catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...
...escorted Chinese Nationalists toward the three-mile limit of Quemoy, and sent the Chinese the rest of the way in LSTs and LSMs. Overhead, Chinese Nationalist ace pilots, in U.S.-built planes, bloodied the Communist MIGs. Little by little, Quemoy was provisioned and armed to the beaches with 155-mm. howitzers, mortars and tanks. From Moscow, Khrushchev demanded the fleet's withdrawal on pain of an all-out war. But the U.S. naval escort, keeping carefully outside the international three-mile limit, maintained the needed umbrella for the Chinese Nationalists -and Khrushchev did nothing...
...worth of Fairchild stock when it was selling at its 1958 low of 19½, and held onto it, last week would have had nearly $18,000 worth of stock. Fairchild makes a long list of imaginative products, ranging from a new silicon semiconductor to the first 8-mm. home sound motion-picture camera. It is one of the Street's most cherished buys, ranking with such rapid risers as Texas Instruments (72⅛ to 214¾ in 18 months), Polaroid (97¾ to 215½) and Universal Match (46¾ to 271⅛on a pre-split basis...
...camera that was only an improvement on cameras on the market. But when his re searchers came to him with the idea of a home movie sound camera, he gave en thusiastic approval. "Fellows from the camera company came to see me and said they could produce an 8-mm. camera with sound," he says. "It had never been done before, but, having built a lot of recorders myself, I knew it could be done. So I gave those fellows encouragement...