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...Baker's ankle injury crippled Harvard. Baker could barely bend his ankle but still finished 11th, about two minutes behind Hardin. Sophomore Bruce Jones and junior Bill Stempson rounded out the scoring five for the Crimson. Dick Howe -- who pulled up with a severe stomach cramp Friday -- fell back in the second half of yesterday's race and finished a disappointing 13th...
...Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Guard). Spouting his admiration for Hitler and contempt for democracy, he was arrested as a Nazi agent in 1942, spent 14 months in a dusty internment camp at Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State. So extremist were his ideas that not even the Nationalists could stomach them at first. In 1948, the party turned down his application for membership on the ground that he "believed in the authoritarian state principle and advocated the destruction of parties...
...their theory is correct, though, such crying babies would not actually have colic, which characteristically involves wind trapped in the stomach and intestines and is relieved by passing the air orally or rectally. Otherwise, the bone-bothered babies behave much like their colicky brothers. They begin crying between 6 and 10 at night, keep it up for hours, even if fed or fondled, cannot be treated with complete success, and will suddenly quit their nightly crying jags when they are four months...
...with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour for complicated stomach or lung operations...
Filter in the Vein. The possibilities of surgical staplers are not limited to sealing off tissue. One instrument is capable of joining two hollow organs such as the stomach and small intestine, simultaneously cutting the necessary opening between them and stapling them together, in a 5-minute procedure that usually requires 20 minutes or more of scalpel work and stitching. One experimenter with the staplers, Dr. Mark Ravitch of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has worked out a new way to prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body...