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...LEWISOHN STADIUM (June 25-Aug. 10) summer concerts, originally conceived as a form of recreation for World War I servicemen, quickly expanded to give all of New York's worn, huddled and hectic masses a tension-free oasis where they could drink in the cultural delight and pellucid serenity of music. Since its inception in 1918, the Lewisohn concert series has fulfilled that function with zeal and occasional distinction. Of late, the masses seem to be flocking to the concrete-tiered stadium with somewhat less enthusiasm, and several topflight performers (Rubinstein, Isaac Stern and others) now shun...
...toughness of the human heart and its ability to withstand intrusion had made a deep impression on Brigham Surgeon Dwight Harken during World War II, when he removed shell fragments from servicemen's hearts. His main postwar concern has been with heart valves, especially mitral valves that have been damaged by rheumatic fever. In 1948, he was one of a few bold surgeons who first dared to slip a finger, with a tiny surgical knife at the tip, into a beating heart to separate the leaflets of a mitral valve partly closed by scarring...
...National Loss." Until recently, most of the 160,000 students in the Defense Department's overseas dependents' schools (which together form a system almost as big as Houston's) were insulated from the cultures surrounding them. In most American garrisons, servicemen and their families live in self-contained housing projects, shop at base stores, attend base movies and churches, scarcely taste the speech and culture of the unfamiliar country beyond the guardposts. In 1960, of the 30,000 pupils who were then enrolled in Air Force schools in Europe, only 980 were taking foreign-language courses...
...spite of 350,000 South Vietnamese troops by now the most modern and well-equipped in South-East Asia, in spite, even, of the 10,000 American servicemen and $2 billion American dollars invested in this jungle land, the fight against Communist led guerrillas, at most 25,000 full-time soldiers, goes...
...have lost ground in the past year and a half; they are no longer steadily gaining strength. The war at the moment seems to be pretty much of a stalemate. But this has been accomplished by active American military participation in the fighting. Already at least fifty-three American servicemen have been killed. American air force pilots, stationed in south Vietnam as technical advisers under orders to shoot only if shot at, are now flying actual combat missions. Until recently these U.S. air force personnel had been limited to transporting soldiers and supplies in helicopters--bananas, the natives call them...