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Merely to locate the pituitary, encased in a bony box like a bomb shelter in the middle of the skull, is a highly delicate, dangerous procedure, and surgeons have tried several approaches. Dr. Robert W. Rand and his team at U.C.L.A. go in through the nasal passages and the sphenoid bone that lies behind them. First, the patient's head is clamped in a stereotactic device that enables the surgeons to take bearings in three dimensions. Then the surgeons saw through the intervening bone and insert the ultracold cannula. Dr. Rand found that temperatures...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, insisted Wednesday that there is no connection between what Harvard is doing about shelter and what M.I.T. is doing. He said that Harvard had already compiled with most the Civil Defense Office's requests...
...Near Toledo, Ohio, a tornado picked up one family's car and hurled it into a creek, killing two small boys and injuring their parents. A few yards away, it ripped the roof from a two-story house, leaving the occupants untouched. A truck driver tried to find shelter beneath an overpass, but the twister scooped him out and turned his truck over...
...ancient Egyptians loathed the changes that life brings. They sought an untroubled permanence in death. Pharaohs who could afford it built pyramids to shelter them in eternity. Others enshrined themselves differently in stone. One such was Sema-tawy-tefnakht, a blood relative of Pharaoh Psamtik I, who commissioned a stylized likeness of himself in rare and unfrugal alabaster, ordered it set in the temple of Amun at Karnak. Permanence, at least in alabaster, is not man's lot; as time passed, his statue was broken in half and thrown into a pit near the temple...
...last weekend brings behind another demonstration for peace in the season's capital, three years ago. In February, 1962, Harvard's now-defunct peace organization, Tocsin, conceived and led a march of 6000 collegians, urging President Kennedy to continue his moratorium on nuclear testing and to abandon his fallout shelter program. Despite many similarities, however, the two marches differed fundamentally on goals and on means of attained their objectives. These differences illustrate changes which have taken place in the student peace movement in the intervening years. In 1962 Tocsin was led by one of the most charismatic Harvard students...