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...researchers that just such a patient had appeared and had been studied at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. A Louisiana farm worker, he was so injured in an auto accident that all the higher centers of his brain were knocked out. Caring for him month after month at Shreveport Veterans Hospital was a forbidding task. Eventually, the doctors made an opening in the patient's abdominal wall and stomach for direct feeding. (This freed the patient of nose tubes, and if he ever recovered the power to chew and swallow food, his stomach and belly could be closed...
...rest in equity capital. Ryan, who is planning to deliver gasoline from Beaumont to Newark for a cost of 29? per barrel v. an average of 38? by tanker, expects no trouble in lining up customers from the 50-odd U.S. oil companies with refineries in the Beaumont-Shreveport, La. area...
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...reason for the Eisenhower forces' anger was quickly demonstrated. A day after the national committee's announcement, the Louisiana State Committee met in Shreveport to settle the seven cases the committee sent back to it. There to hold the Taft fort was John E. Jackson Sr., who for 23 years has bossed the Republican party in Louisiana, quietly keeping it small so he could hold control until the day when there would be some patronage to pass around.* On hand to plead the Ike cause was John Minor Wisdom, a fiery New Orleans lawyer, who has been trying...
...controlled state central committee met to consider the seven contests sent back to it, Wisdom & Co. knew they were fighting a losing battle, but they tried. Wisdom was on his feet during most of the session, objecting to everything, including the fact that the meeting was being held in Shreveport instead of New Orleans. At that, Shreveport's fiery Judson M. Grimmet (who at one point threatened to hit an Eisenhower man) brandished his walking stick and shouted: "You would think we were on Koje Island." Replied Wisdom: "That's right. It is like Koje Island...