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...narrowed, and there has been no way to repair this second defect. Dr. Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia, who developed the first operation, now has another for opening the aortic valve: he pushes piano wire into the valve through the heart, and uses it as a guide for a spreader which opens the valve...
...Lake Success, Admiral Chester Nimitz, mediator of the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, also took on the job of U.N. public-relations consultant, i.e., official spreader of good will. In Omaha, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews was named president of radio station WOW, Inc. In Boston, onetime Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts...
...Sabetha, Kans., County Attorney James McClain, 31, launched his campaign for governor and repeal of the state's dry law with a parade of farm trucks and equipment. (Sign on a manure spreader: "We'll spread McClain over Kansas...
Each week, four contestants-usually three men and one woman-answer questions about farm life. Samples: "Why is butter yellower in summer than in winter?" "'Why are barns painted red?"* Prizes, as in most quiz programs, are lavish, but they are also practical: a manure spreader, an automatic shotgun, a ten-year supply of overalls (40 pairs), a milking machine. Contributors of questions used get a $50 gift certificate with a mail-order catalogue...
...summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...