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...chloroform and nitrous oxide ("laughing gas") in surgery and dentistry, the anesthetic art has become vastly more complex and has developed into a new specialty. Only an M.D. can be an anesthesiologist. Except in emergencies, he studies the patient in advance of operations, to decide what anesthetics will be safest and most effective...
Engan's rivals call him "the world's safest jumper" because he has never been injured in 15 years of competition. Crowds of up to 135,000 turn out to watch him make like a bird. He is a national hero in Norway, where his biography is a bestseller, and in Austria children mimic his style on tiny backyard ski jumps-the one who jumps farthest gets to call himself Toralf Engan all day long...
Although Hussein yearns to reign as a constitutional monarch ("something between the Queen of England and De Gaulle," a friend says), bitter experience suggests to him that one-man rule is safest, and Jordan is not a democratic land. Even so, Hussein last month held "fair and impartial" elections for Parliament, three years before he was required to do so. Though parties had been prohibited since an attempted coup in 1957 (Hussein lifted the ban only three weeks ago), the elections were a far cry from the rigged balloting held last year, when no fewer than 40 candidates...
India is indeed threatened by Communism from both within and without, and nobody is more aware of this than Jawaharlal Nehru. Yet in spite of these facts, or indeed very much because of them, India's safest course remains that of nonalignment. Critics in the West should ask themselves what possible positive contribution India could make as a declared ally at this time...
...House. In both branches, it is the Southern fortress that will make the Democratic difference. In New York, the nation's most populous state. Democrats seem to be in a hopeless state of disarray; Incumbent Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits are about the safest bets anywhere for reelection. In the Midwest, even the most hopeful Democratic leaders talk about keeping their losses to a minimum...