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Thin, elegant Henri Navarre, 55, was born at Villefranche-de-Rouergue in southwestern France and educated at SaintCyr, won a cavalry commission on the battlefield in World War I. A specialist in intelligence work, he was chief...
...Bone & Helmet. While the Shay discovery was in the works, other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...
Doctors and midwives have long known that women nearing the end of pregnancy hate to lie flat on their backs-many complain that it makes them feel weak-but nobody knew why. There is good reason for the phenomenon, Dr. William F. Mengert of Southwestern Medical College reported last week. The heavy-laden uterus can press too hard on the big vessel (vena cava) carrying blood back to the heart, and thus cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure, or shock. Dr. Mengert hopes that his discovery will save such patients from needless operations, because the real remedy...
Nebraska Township is a small (pop. 285) farm community in the southwestern part of Iowa. In a traditionally G.O.P. county, Nebraska Township has gone Democratic in several national elections-for Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, Truman in 1948. Last week a Des Moines Register poll among most of Nebraska Township's 145 potential voters found 82 for Eisenhower, 33 for Stevenson. Of Eisenhower's supporters, 16 had voted for Truman in 1948; of Stevenson's, one had voted for Dewey...
...Idea. Because he suffers from a noticeable limp, Hawk did not share his mother's rosy dreams. He devoted his summers to amateur theatricals, but in college (Oklahoma Southwestern Institute of Technology) he nursed an ambition to be an English teacher. In 1927, on a visit to Chicago, he heard a voice reading poetry over the air, and decided mother had been right all along: "After all, I was the best dramatic reader at Southwestern...