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...familiar. An artery consists of two inner layers and a "backup" outer layer which the flowing blood normally never touches. In arteriosclerosis, a fatty substance hardens along the inner layers and clogs the blood flow. The trick is to clean, remove or bypass those inner layers. Surgeons once commonly slit open the artery along the length of the diseased portion and scraped out the offending matter; more recently they have been bypassing or removing the entire section and replacing it with a synthetic graft...
...well and with whom he has learned to work smoothly. Chief Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck, 50, son of a former Mayo physician, is a man of whom his wife says: "His outstanding quality is that he is always composed under stress"-a quality that was highly useful when he slit open the belly of the President of the United States at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. To assist him in the operation, Dr. Hallenbeck brought his Mayo colleague, Dr. Donald C. McIlrath, 36. Behind his distinguished patient's head, in the vital role of senior anesthesiologist, controlling...
...could sew. The girls had imported bright, flowery muu muus from Hawaii to wear after surfing. But muu muus were originally thought up by missionaries to cover up the exposed breasts of the native women. The kids trimmed off the excess material, accentuated the bodice for trim fit, slit the skirt for free movement, and finished it all off with yards of ruffles and flourishes. When enough of the home-grown variety showed up on the street, store buyers decided it was a fad worth cashing in on. Selling at $10 to $15, store-bought grannies have spread to Chicago...
Merchant Seaman Gerald Gormley was practically dead on arrival at Detroit's Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his heart stopped beating while he was on the operating table. Though surgeons managed to sew up the aorta and got his heart pumping once more, seven months passed before Gormley left the hospital...
...professional matter, and should be left to the professionals." Most of Shastri's day is spent with Parliament and in meetings with an emergency committee made up of five of his Cabinet ministers. Here, Shastri makes the decisions, overruling Defense Minister Yashwantrao B. Chavan, who opposed the digging of slit trenches in New Delhi for fear of alarming the population, and ordering that rationing machinery be set up in case it is needed later...