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...more recently, the whole center. More than ever, they honor Dr. Brown's dictum that the child is not just a little man. In the early years of the century, Surgeon William Ladd wrote a new chapter in the history of his dexterous profession by developing ways to revamp malformed intestinal and bile tracts in infants. Neurosurgeon Frank Ingraham has devised a highly ingenious method of draining the fluid in hydrocephalic children from the spinal canal to the kidneys through a polyethylene tube. Pediatrician Bronson Crothers has probed the causes of cerebral palsy, is now preparing a book with...
AIRLINE DEAL between U.S. Government, Pan American World Airways and Afghanistan will turn underdeveloped nation into international air link. U.S. will lend Afghanistan some $14 million to revamp antiquated Afghan Aryana airline, buy new planes and build first-class field with 12,000-ft. runway at Kandahar near the Pakistan border. Pan American will supervise modernization and get option to buy 49% of Aryana's stock...
...trouble with these admirable decisions was that they carried no practical weight. With bland disregard for its constitutional obligations, the Segni government made no attempt to persuade Parliament to revamp the public security laws in accordance with the decisions of the court. The Ministry of Interior continued to exercise its old powers, brassily slapped an additional 100 Italians into confino in the two months after the practice had been declared unconstitutional...
While they kept a stiff upper lip in public. Stevenson's leaders in California were frightened, baffled and discouraged. Said one: "We'll have to revamp our entire campaign in California. And Adlai will have to make some changes. He can't play it from the balcony any more; he's got to get down with the people. When he came out to California we gave him a complete briefing. He didn't do a single damned thing we suggested-like spending less time polishing up those speeches and more time meeting people. Another thing...
...there is no uniform reporting system. Businessmen are trying to revamp reporting procedures, but at best the system gives only inventory value in relation to current prices, pays little attention to the actual volume of goods. Thus, the inventory dollar figures often show disturbing month-to-month fluctuations as a reflection of price changes, although the physical volume may remain fairly stable...