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...hole had been cut in the wall at bed level, and a slightly larger win dow above it was fitted with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that looked like the gadget used to pluck a cereal box off the top shelf of a grocery store, Surgeon Humphreys was going to reach through the opening in the wall and remove an ostrich-egg-sized lump from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Disarming Mr. Chin | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

DAYS OF OUR LIVES (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The premiere of another soap-and-scalpel opera, this time starring Macdonald Carey as the melodramatic medico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 5, 1965 | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...clock read 6:15 a.m. when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was asleep under general anesthesia. Ten minutes later, the chief surgeon murmured "scalpel?" and the operation was under way. There was a swift, sure incision, then a slow, deliberate excision. By 9:15 a.m., the last suture was in place, the operation complete. "It's wonderful," breathed one of the doctors, "just wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Not a Usual Man | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...looked fit and healthy in his fresh white uniform, gold-topped swagger stick and black Moslem cap, Sukarno had fallen ill twice during August, probably because of his chronic kidney trouble. During his recent trip to Europe, Viennese specialists urged an operation, but Sukarno is said to fear the scalpel, since his horoscope predicts that he will die by steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Down with the Beatles! | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...many laymen," writes Dr. X, "ever even dream that 60 of the city's doctors gather voluntarily for the sole purpose of keeping themselves sharp and on their toes?" For every lapse of skill, Intern cites ten occasions where a brilliant diagnosis, or a skillful stroke of the scalpel, frustrated man's ultimate enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Story | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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