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...morning last week, Chief Surgeon Henry Swan II began a daring and radical operation. Its aim: to give Mike an artificial esophagus, made from a part of the intestine...
...Hiatus. With the small patient under ether, Dr. Swan made a huge incision to open chest and abdomen. He pulled out a loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...
Next, Dr. Swan spread Mike's ribs and began probing for the esophagus. He found that its lower end, where it joins the stomach, was unburned. He kept going until he found the upper end; it was also unburned. But in between was a 4-in. length of scarred, closed pipe. He cut that...
Vanishing Breeds. When the first count was run on Christmas Day in 1900, birds were getting scarcer in the U.S. The great auk and Labrador duck were gone; the umbrageous flocks of passenger pigeons were reduced to a pathetic aviary remnant; the trumpeter swan seemed likely to be silenced forever. Then came bird-protection laws and treaties. Although these are still not fully enforced, nearly all the once-threatened birds have come back, some in greater numbers than ever before. Birders, as bird watchers call themselves, have multiplied with the birds. Only a handful of the watchers are professional ornithologists...
...Apology. Clutching the yellow paper in his good left hand, McCarthy read what "may be my temporary swan song as chairman." It sounded more like the honk of a winged goose. Said Joe: "Our committee has been held up now for approximately ten months. The President of the U.S. has taken it upon himself to congratulate Senators Flanders*and W'atkins, who have been instrumental in holding up our work ... I should apologize to the American people for what was an unintentional deception upon them. During the Eisenhower campaign I spoke from coast to coast, promising the American people...