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...Union proposed Jan. 25 as the date for a Big Four foreign ministers' conference in Berlin. Britain, France and the U.S. had suggested Jan. 4, but probably will go along with the Russian date without much complaint. U.S. diplomats guessed that the Russian stalling was an effort to prolong the French National Assembly's delay in acting on the European Defense Community...
...million. The great majority of malformed infants die in the womb; others are fatally injured during delivery. And even when, rarely, they are born alive, the life hangs by a thread, and most doctors will not take heroic measures to preserve such a life when success can only prolong misery. Soviet physicians report that a double baby girl, similar to the Hartley case, survived for 13 months (in 1937-38); few survive even as long as this. By coincidence, a laborer's wife in Brazil's state of Minas Gerais bore a double girl child, baptized Ana Maria...
...Extreme pessimism regarding cancer of the lung is no longer justified, said the University of Tennessee's Dr. Duane Carr. Even in cases which are found too late for surgery to help, deep X-ray treatments and drugs (nitrogen mustard and triethylene melamine) will relieve pain and prolong life...
Women who do not want to be widowed can prolong their husbands' lives "with measured doses of enlightened nagging," an official of the American Cancer Society suggested at the annual meeting last week in Manhattan. Said Frank Kramer, director of field relations...
...immigration authorities, he had unsuccessfully pleaded that sure death faced him in Yugoslavia as an opponent of Marshal Tito's Communist regime. His plea for sanctuary was refused for lack of supporting evidence. In custody, he had tried drastic measures, including slashing his wrists with a razor, to prolong his stay. As prison officials figured it, Pavlovich had attacked Thompson in an attempt to get at least a long U.S. jail sentence before a waiting Yugoslav ship took him home...