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Ludwig Erhard, who turned 69 last week, has neither skill nor stomach for back-room politics, relies instead on his formidable success as a university-trained economist to hold the favor of West German voters. Now, however, he is caught in a dreadful dilemma: he may have to take up Parteipolitik in self-defense...
...fellow inmates. Flying low, he eluded the Indian Air Force jets that were scrambled to bring him back. After landing at Karachi, he declared to reporters: "The only violation of Indian law I have committed is to waive procedural red tape because I have had more than I can stomach...
Controversy over both the value and safety of stomach freezing as a treatment of duodenal ulcers has been growing ever since a research team working under Surgery Professor Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota Hospitals reported the first promising results (TIME, May 18, 1962). Freezing the stomach wall for a short time, Dr. Wangensteen explained, knocks out much of its capacity for producing hydrochloric acid, thus reducing the amount of the corrosive juice that flows into the duodenum, the next chamber down the digestive tract. If acid production should bounce back, he said, the stomach could safely...
Sticking close to the original Wangensteen cooling method of pumping alcohol, at a temperature near zero Fahrenheit, into a stomach balloon, Dr. Hitchcock and his team treated 173 patients, 172 of whom have now been followed for 18 months (one was killed in an auto accident). They report that 50 have minimal ulcer pain remaining, and 13 have none-a satisfactory result rate of only 37%. No fewer than 71 of the patients still suffer pain, 37 more eventually had to have part of their stomachs removed, and one died from a gastric-ulcer perforation...
...have intermittent ulcer pain. The satisfactory result rate is 51 % . One reason for the difference between his record and Hitchcock's, said Dr. Wangensteen, is that his team now uses liquid that is supercooled to - 40°F. when it enters the tube on its way to the stomach. This chills the stomach wall itself for six or seven minutes to 13°F.-far below freezing. Then the stomach is quickly rewarmed...