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...Workman (C) led at the firing of the pistol. Wilberforce (C) then went to the front and stayed there for a mile and 2/3, when he dropped out on account of a stitch in his side...
While the House was cutting and stitch ing, its Appropriations Committee cut $218 million, a whacking 25%, out of the Commerce Department's request for 1958. That brought the committee's total score so far to about $1 billion out of seven bills totaling $14.5 billion. But upwards of half the chips in that impressive $1 billion pile are phony, e.g., $207 million out of payments to veterans, $76 million out of old-age-assistance grants to states. Federal outlays of this sort are governed by laws, and as long as the laws remain on the books. Congress...
...less similar to Bailey's. Some chill their patients to a body temperature 10° or more below normal. Others may plunge a needle into a patient's heart and deliberately stop its beat for as long as they need to work inside it. Generally, they cut, stitch, stretch, graft, rebuild and insert gadgets in the heart with ever-growing success-although the death rate inevitably is high in heroic operations on patients already in poor condition...
...danger of stopping the heart is that if the surgeon inadvertently puts a stitch through a nerve bundle (which can later prove fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...
...weeks of sunshine on a Florida key, Harry S. Truman, 72, and wife Bess, 71, bore the marks of Missouri mishaps. Bess's broken left ankle was still in a cast after a recent household tumble (TIME, Jan. 14); Harry's scalp was bandaged over a six-stitch wound he got when he slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his home during a dawn workout...