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...well-connected Frenchman could sweep away the bureaucratic snarls and inspire the confidence of timid French financiers. The firm took on Aaron, the president of a small bank, as co-developer. Aristocratic, war-decorated Aaron, 57, steered the project through a thicket of government regulations. He also helped to stitch together an all-French syndicate of 40 banks, insurance companies and pension funds to finance it. Aaron not only received a fee for his services but also will share in the building's profits; he declines to say what his total will...
...Bypass surgery began with an unplanned and extreme measure taken in November 1964 by Dr. H. Edward Garrett at Houston's Methodist Hospital. Operating on a 42-year-old truck driver named Heriberto Hernandez, Garrett had expected to ream out a short stretch of clogged coronary artery and stitch over it a split piece of vein removed from the patient's own leg-what surgeons call a patch graft. Two main arteries proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit in Memphis...
Such exercises in symbolism proved immensely valuable in sustaining morale. Air Force Lieut. Colonel John Dramesi, who escaped with Atterberry in 1969 but was recaptured, began in the fall of 1971 to laboriously stitch together an American flag. He used the threads from a yellow blanket for the gold embroidery, pieces of red nylon underwear and red thread from a handkerchief, white threads from a towel and patches of blue from a North Vietnamese jacket. The flag often flew at night in the Hanoi Hilton cell block that he shared with 40 other men, and it was dutifully saluted...
EVEN as a "new Europe" is trying to stitch itself together, an old one is doing its best to pull the Continent apart. For all the talk of unity, Europeans have not yet surmounted the chauvinistic prejudices that permit Belgians to think of neighboring Dutchmen as supercilious stuffed shirts, Germans to regard Italians as hopelessly unambitious and inefficient. As for the French, all too many are still reared with an overweening sense of cultural and linguistic superiority that Jean Cocteau once described with the confession: "When I was little, I believed that foreigners could not really talk...
WITHOUT A STITCH IN TIME by Peter DeVries. 328 pages. Little, Brown...