Word: naval
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...place of the presidential bromides that traditionally accompany Administration foreign-aid bills, Lyndon Johnson last October hoisted a storm warning. From his sickbed in the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., he said: "While our wealth is great, it is not unlimited. It must be used not merely to apply Band-Aids to superficial wounds but to remove the cause of deeper and more dangerous disorders. That is why I do not intend for American aid to become an international dole. Our assistance must and will go to those nations that will most use it. Action, not promises, will...
Plasma to Gut. At the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 ("Namru-2") in Taipei, Dr. Robert Allan Phillips, the world's most famed cholera fighter, has pursued his interest in the disease since 1955. An important development was his theory that the diarrhea results from a disturbance of what doctors call "the sodium pump." Normally, Dr. Phillips explains, sodium salts and other electrolytes pass in both directions from the inside of the bowel into the blood plasma, and vice versa; and in healthy people the movement is greater from the gut to the plasma. In cholera, the proportions...
...been able to buy from Western nations despite a U.S. embargo. The Israeli-Arab standoff is a joke, since neither has markets to interest the other, and both sides in the cold war trade with each country. Indeed, the only really successful postwar sanction was the 28-day naval blockade that the U.S. threw around Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. It was totally effective, but it required 180 ships and cost $44.5 million. Neither Britain nor many other nations today can afford to spend that kind of money to stymie an antagonist...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Singers Barbara Cook, Anita Gillette, John Raitt and Ron Husmann are guests, along with the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club. Host is Henry Fonda...
Senior Ben Emory skippered a crew of seven Harvard yachtsmen to a fifth place finish in the two-day McMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis, Md., over the weekend. The Naval Academy invited ten colleges, including six from the Ivy League, to race its fleet of 44-foot yawls in the Regatta's 38th running...