Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S poignant Oct. 29 story on how Industrial Technician John Holter developed a brain valve to save the life of his baby son, suffering from hydrocephalus, implied that only Holler's baby had been saved. At least 65 children suffering from water on the brain have had their lives saved by means of the surgical insertion of a Holter brain valve...
...Pietro Nenni, leader of Italy's fellow traveling Socialists, announced: "For the first time in many years there is deep disagreement between us and the Communists." Connoisseurs of his serpentine mind were divided over whether he was capable of honest feeling about suffering anywhere, or just trying to save his own hide in the Communist wreckage. The Netherlands. Even children's TV shows were interrupted to urge prayers for the Hungarians. Some 30,000 Amster-dammers gathered one night in Dam Square to cheer denunciation of Russia. In Belgium, 5,000 university students stormed the Russian embassy...
Then came reports of Soviet MIGs landing in Syria. The alarm faded in a few hours when intelligence officers concluded that Nasser had simply flown his Russian planes to Damascus to save them from destruction by the British and French invaders...
...time to defensive-sounding explanations. The singularly unimpressive performance of the Egyptian air force was explained away as a clever trick. "Our pilots," said he, "were ordered to stay grounded despite their protests . . . We put dummy planes on the airfields, and in this way we were able to save our air force." He went on to make the amazing assertions that no Egyptian tanks or armored cars were lost in battle against the Israelis, that the Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes and had been "in control of the battlefield" until the "great deception, treachery, perfidy...
Based on a book of reminiscences by the daughter of one of Philadelphia's oldest clans, it is set in the middle of what she claims was her family, a world dominated by a pleasantly enthusiastic millionaire who believes in having fun ("You can't save life, or store it, or put it in a vault. You have to plunge in.") The play's purpose is to show Mr. A.J. Drexel Biddle and his family plunging...