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Window in a Pivot. Then his case came to the attention of the neurosurgery department at the University of California Medical Center. There, like so many neurosurgeons before him, Dr. George C. Stevenson had been challenged by that seemingly impregnable floor of the skull. While studying blood flow in the brains of monkeys, he had learned how to slice through the anatomical maze at the brain's base with the aid of a binocular surgical microscope, and he had practiced putting tourniquets on the basilar artery...
...most precocious pair of sophomores in college ball. Walker, a 6-ft. 3-in. guard, is the team's top scorer at 20.7 points a game; Westbrook, a 6-ft. 7-in. center, averages eleven rebounds per game, is the key man in the Friars' pro-type pivot offense. And Junior Blair, whose mother started the whole thing, is no less a whiz: he is averaging 14.2 points a game, and against Iowa (which later knocked off national champion U.C.L.A.) he calmly tossed in two free throws with 17 sec. left to give Providence a 71-70 victory...
...Crucial Pivot. President Paz accused Communist Czechoslovakia of playing a major role in the riots, claimed evidence that the tin miners had been "armed with weapons made in Czechoslovakia." Denouncing "this interference in Bolivia's internal affairs," Paz immediately broke all relations and ordered the Czech diplomats home...
...crucial pivot that keeps him in or out of power will be the Bolivian army and his own armed followers. So long as they remain loyal, Paz will probably weather the storm. It is in the best interest of the hemisphere that he do so. He is an able economist of considerable vision; he has a deep appreciation of inter-American relations and the U.S. role in Latin American development. And he is probably the only man strong enough to hold together his seething land...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Mary) swung her way into bebop and then retired from jazz to devote herself to prayer and good works. After ten years' absence from the recording mike, she is back in good form as the pianistic pivot of several talented groups, among them the Howard Roberts Chorus, which sings her Black Christ of the Andes. As a hymn it is simple and moving, with cool kaleidoscopic harmonies, but its jazz superstructure seems to be an afterthought...