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Nothing has done more to relieve postoperative depression than development of techniques for reconstructing the breast after surgery. Dr. Reuven Snyderman, a plastic surgeon at Memorial, has found that explaining the possibilities of reconstruction has helped many women to accept mastectomy calmly. The cosmetic job involves implantation of a silicon form and substantial surgery to restore the breast to a near-normal contour. But according to Snyderman, most women are so pleased by the initial implant, which makes the breast look normal under clothing, that they do not even bother with the later stages necessary to complete the process...
...will replace an interim troika composed of himself, Brinkley and Frank McGee. NBC News President Reuven Frank insists that the change has nothing to do with ratings. (Since 1968, two years before Huntley left, CBS has had a small but respectable lead in the evening-news audience. The standings have not changed appreciably with the Chancellor-Brinkley-McGee format...
WHEN a cholera epidemic broke out recently in Kenya, the Ministry of Health decided that the entire country would have to be immunized. But where could so much vaccine be obtained in a short time? Unhesitatingly, the Kenyans turned to Israeli Ambassador Reuven Dafni for help. Dafni cabled Jerusalem, and within two days 1,000,000 doses of vaccine had reached Nairobi. Eventually, 300,000 more doses were sent. By last week the epidemic, after claiming 47 lives, was over...
...Mulholland rejected a plane-crash story with the comment, "No flames in the film. Too quiet." But generally, the networks have matured since the days when "Shoot bloody" was the watchword of Viet Nam War coverage, and they are constantly evaluating their own performance. Last week NBC News President Reuven Frank reminded his staff in a memo that "misleading practice" has been forbidden for years and noted, "I get as weary of being called on to be Caesar's only wife as you do." By and large, the networks' editors have done well in maintaining their purity...
...summer session of Israel's parliament had hardly come to order for the first time last week when a page delivered a handwritten note to Speaker Reuven Barkatt. "For some time I have not been able to come to Knesset sessions," read the familiar scrawl, "and I do not see any possibility in the future, either, of taking part. I am not entitled to bear the name of Knesset member if I cannot fulfill my obligation to participate, and I hereby submit my resignation." Thus did David Ben-Gurion, seated in the Knesset's first row, announce...