Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once a man has finished college, there is no legal provision for deferment through graduate study. This matter is entirely in the hands of the local draft boards, which may or may not approve a student's request for4NROTC students satisfy part of their service obligation in regular Monday afternoon drill periods behind the football stadium...
...secret cancer operation at a Vienna hospital in 1951. Now 63, Ana Pauker ("who frequented all the right beds in her time and once had a direct phone line to Stalin") still lives in her luxurious apartment in Bucharest, comforted by large doses of tranquilizers (evipan) and morphine (regular 1½-grain doses administered by state doctors). Ana Pauker lost power in Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign, but, unlike 250 Zionist leaders still in Rumanian jails, says Dr. Cohen, escaped prison because she placed diaries full of compromising details in a place of safekeeping in Switzerland with instructions that...
Enter the Machine. This method can only be used in cases where the surgeon can count on getting in and out of the heart in less than eight minutes. Moreover, under hypothermia the heart is especially likely to lose its regular beat and flutter uselessly (fibrillate), which may cause death. What was still needed was a pumping device to take over the functions of both heart and lungs for as long as necessary to operate. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon Jr. had been working on such a device for almost 20 years. Bailey himself...
...hopes that the next three years will be unusually stimulating with George Heimler, 19-year-old former resident of Budapest, living in the House. No special welcomes or parties are planned for him, but House members plan to welcome him into the Kirkland community in the Fall as a regular, somewhat bewildered, sophomore and give him the same warm welcome they will extend to the rest...
Socially, the regular run of House dances is supplemented by frequent mixers, notably one with Wellesley early in the fall, general outings, and this year a splash party in the I.A.B. Throughout the year, special House dinners are often arranged followed by such speakers as U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Robert E. Sherwood and Joseph Alsop in recent years. This year, Senator John F. Kennedy, an ex-Winthrop House member, will speak at the Senior Dinner...