Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Oxygen. Drs. Harold Atkins and William Seaman of New York's Colum bia-Presbyterian Medical Center told of progress toward licking a basic problem-radiosensitivity. Since Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X rays, in 1895, radiotherapists have been trying to get radiation to destroy diseased tissue while letting healthy nearby tissue survive...
...practice, Drs. Atkins and Seaman and others on the Columbia-Presbyterian team, pick patients with advanced cancer to treat with oxygen and radiation. According to a carefully devised procedure, such a patient gets an anesthetic injected into his veins, and a rubber hose is threaded down his windpipe so that he will not choke while asleep. His eardrums are pricked so that oxygen pressure will not perforate them. Monitoring devices, including a microphone that allows the anesthesiologist to listen to respiration, are attached to the body. The patient is put on a stretcher that is placed in the oxygen chamber...
Married. Horst Eichmann, 21, Buenos Aires technician who on marriage license papers listed the occupation of his father, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, as "Lieutenant Colonel retired"; and Elvira Pummer, 21, an Argentine student whom the groom met in New York when he was a merchant seaman and she was visiting relatives; in a civil ceremony in suburban Buenos Aires to be followed by Roman Catholic rites...
Most of the owners refused even to negotiate the issue of foreign-flag ships. For U.S. shipowners the overriding economic fact of life is that the U.S. able seaman earns wages and overtime averaging $612 a month-three to four times as much as a foreign sailor. Largely because of this wage gulf, the number of U.S.-flag private merchant ships has slipped from 1,050 to 941 in the past decade. Meantime, U.S. owners have registered 454 ships in foreign countries, including 259 in tax-free Panama, Liberia and Honduras. Not only can these "flag of convenience" ships...
...militant Abdulrahman Mohammed, nicknamed Babu, a highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...