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Money Stays. The Berlin that both Adenauer and his Opposition want to defend is not resting on the six months' stay of political execution that Khrushchev so grandly conceded. Hardly 1% of its bank deposits have fled to safer havens in the West since the crisis began; only a few factory orders have been canceled. Buildings still mushroom, factories still hum, refugees still pour in, as many as 2,000 a week, from Communist Germany...
...sacrifices, as if a German settlement and some form of disengagement would actually "relieve tensions." But against the nebulous idea that a vacuum or a buffer contributes to peace, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd argued cogently last week: "It may well be that the world is a very much safer place if in critical areas there is a direct confrontation of the major parties and not an area of uncertainty...
...Ford and Mr. Moseley feel that the study will go a long way towards establishing basic accident causes and making the roads safer for everyone. For every cause determined, they have stated, "there must be a preventive measure to go with it. We might not know what the measure is, but after our research we will know where to go to find...
...electric shock, TEA promptly defibrillated 44 isolated dog hearts up to eight times each. The technique then saved the baby boy. In four other fibrillating human patients since treated in the same way, it has worked equally well. TEA may be the trick that wall allow considerably longer, cooler, safer heart operations than have been possible...
...using the time-honored place kick for one point, or the run or pass for two. The rule was designed to cut down tie games, give leading teams a chance to exert extra pressure and trailing teams a better chance to catch up. Most teams settled for the safer kick (chances of success: about 65%) rather than risk the run or pass (chances: about 35%), especially if they scored first. But in five major games the new rule was decisive...