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...snow just beneath them. A woman of 70 was swept into the icy River Lutz and rescued from the shore more than two days later. But near by, a peasant, wearily plodding across the fields, saw his house, his wife, his mother and his three children all swept to oblivion in an instant...
...political following independent of the President's, he can easily get into trouble. (Calhoun and Henry Wallace are two who got too big for their vice-presidential boots.) Most Vice Presidents, great and small, have accepted the apparently inevitable and used the office as a stepping stone to oblivion. They have resigned themselves to a part in which the sole importance is being around if the President dies or is incapacitated...
That was where Anesthesiologist Kenneth Keown came in. He devised elaborate techniques for anesthetizing the patients and running sensitive tests during surgery to make suwf that they did not slip over the line into permanent oblivion. If their hearts, at best always on the point of failure, showed signs of stopping during the drastic operation, Dr. Keown was ready with a battery of revivers. The surgeon would work better without the nagging fear and responsibility for the patient's minute-to-minute reactions. The Hahnemann team's technique has already saved thousands of lives and is becoming standard...
...even then, the censor would sometimes delete "Pravda says," making it sound like the correspondent's own opinion. Every phone the newsmen could use was tapped; there was always loud clicking on the line. Two English-speaking A. P. secretaries were mysteriously hauled off to jail and oblivion. In addition, correspondents were never given even elementary information by the Russians. "If they announced a new appointment," says Gilmore, "and you didn't have your own personal file on the guy, you couldn't even get anyone to tell you his middle name...
...effort. They decided, to the dismay of Rotterdam's museumgoers, simply to hang the picture back up again the way it was before. Last week the Offering was in place for all to see, while St. Peter's face was turned to the wall, consigned to oblivion...