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Bolivia's ten-year-old social revolution is the most complete in Latin America after Cuba's, Richard W. Patch told a Kirkland House seminar last night. He singled out extensive land reforms as the best evidence of the country's progress...
...bath. After 15 minutes, her temperature had dropped about 6° F. She was taken out of the bath and Dr. Newman opened her chest. The surgeons saw the rare type of aortic narrowing they had expected, and decided to correct it by putting in a patch. They inserted tubes in the great veins near her heart and in a thigh artery, to hook her up to a heart-lung machine...
...worked plastic tubes through arm veins into both sides of her heart, injected a radiopaque dye and took X rays to get a clear picture of her narrowed aorta. Her operation differed only in technical details from Ro Anne's. Dr. Prevedel sewed in a similar Teflon patch, and Patricia went home nine days later...
Radio Galaxy. The strongest "radio star" in the sky had the astronomers baffled for many years. Its powerful waves came from a patch of sky in the constellation Cygnus, and optical astronomers could find nothing there. At last the Palomar telescope, guided by a new and extremely accurate radio fix, photographed an extraordinary scene that looked like a collision of two enormous galaxies 500 million light-years away. Galaxy collisions are possible, though unlikely, and they might emit radio waves because of churning gases between their hundreds of billions of stars...
Government grants to the University appear as a patch-work of departments because of Harvard's system of budgeting. Under a long-standing rule, expressed by the hallowed phrase "each tub must stand on its own bottom," a separate accounting is kept by each department, and each must balance its budget annually. Departments must absorb deficits to the limit of their own accumulated balances of previous years. When these are used up, deficits may be covered by unrestricted funds from the University's separate endowment...