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...under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down the throat and slipping a basket-shaped forceps down the tube to snip off the polyp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: A Rupture & a Polyp | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Reinforcements Next Time. One of Kennedy's few outspoken critics was Blaar Coetzee, Deputy Minister of Bantu [Negro] Administration, who called the Senator a "little snip," and vowed that South Africa would not be intimidated by the U.S. or Great Britain. The pro-government Afrikaans press was also antagonistic, but the English-language papers were enthusiastic. "Kennedy's visit," gushed the opposition Rand Daily Mail, "was the best thing that has happened to South Africa for years."* Kennedy even got on well with the leaders of the South African Foundation, a business-sponsored promotional organization. After a private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: With Bobby in Darkest Africa | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Slip & Saran Wrap. In 45 minutes, Ethel was hard. "When they tried to get me out of the cast, I wasn't coming out too well," she recalls. "They tipped me over." Her buttons were imbedded in the plaster, so Segal had to snip her out in her slip. As for the boots, they were hopelessly stuck and remained behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Casting of Ethel Scull | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...good for four or five wearings, depending on the clemency of the weather and the intensity of the wearer's frug. Gone are laundry and cleaners' bills; all that's needed is a good eraser. Gone, too, are needle and thread and painstaking alterations. A quick snip of the scissors and the hem is shortened, the neckline lowered, while cut outs sprout all over. As for rips, Scotch Tape is all that's needed for instant repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Paper Capers | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...techniques. Along with Kings County Hospital's Dr. Philip Sawyer, they clamped off the diseased section at either end, then injected carbon dioxide between the outer and inner layers of the artery. With the two layers thus separated, it was relatively easy to make a small incision and snip off the ends of the diseased inner layers, then pull them out. After the incisions were sutured and the clamps removed, the blood immediately began flowing through the undiseased outer layer. The operation has been tried on various arteries in 14 other patients. Thus far, there have been no complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Hewing the Fat | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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