Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev outside of Poland is Communist Hungary, where a wave of unrest has swept through the universities and schools. Students have been demanding an end to Russian language classes and compulsory courses in Marxism, more freedom and better living conditions. At one university last week 3,000 students quit their Communist youth organization to form an independent group. As in Poland, local Communist organizations appeared to be behind some of the student agitation, though cautioning them against street demonstrations. At this precarious moment, appropriately, Hungary's new party boss, Erno Gero, turned up in Belgrade to seek Comrade Tito...
...gleam in young Forssmann's eyes, the chief surgeon even forbade his experimenting on himself. Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it. With little more than i ft. inserted, the friend quit, protesting that it was too dangerous. A week later, with no helper other than a nurse holding a mirror so that he could watch the tube's progress on a fluoroscope, Forssmann tried again and got 25½-inches of tube through his elbow vein...
...through the valve, which would stay in place. Pediatricians, who had just heard Dr. Spitz's report, were hopeful that his technique and Holter's valve would be the answer to hundreds of cases of this type of hydrocephalus each year in the U.S. John Holter quit his technician's job, was devoting his whole time to making the valves that had saved...
SUEZ RATES for war-risk insurance on cargo passing through, canal are back down to pre-crisis levels. Minimum rates are now 10? per $280 of value v. 45? a fortnight ago and 80? just after non-Egyptian pilots quit in September...
...million a year), NBC's went up 170% (to an estimated $192 million) and CBS's jumped 253% (to an estimated $235 million). Last week ABC's owners, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., decided that the network was not moving fast enough; they forced Kintner to quit...