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...Hughes for cover. Summa organized the construction of the Glomar Explorer, under the guise of an oceanic mining and exploration ship. Its real mission remains the subject of suspicion. Despite Government denials, there is speculation that the ship may have been performing different duties-like implanting a weapons systern on the ocean floor. Last week the Government sought to dispel those suspicions by allowing newsmen to visit the huge barge that accompanied the Glomar Explorer on the mission. The craft looked harmless, but it was not large enough to accommodate a retrieved Soviet submarine, as the CIA at first asserted...
...nagging question had been: What about the heart's nerve connections, since these cannot be reestablished in transplant surgery? Dr. Shumway's answer: It doesn't matter. Like practically everything else in nature, the heart has fail-safe protection. It has an internal, independent, electrical "ignition systern" to trigger its beats. This system speeds up in response to outside nervous stimulation (excitement) to meet the body's resulting greater demands for blood and oxygen. But even with no external nerve connections, it responds to excitement in essentially the same fashion through the action of adrenal hormones...
...Anna, of course, was Actress Anna Kashfi, 30, his recently divorced wife, and she had broken into his house. "She started pulling the girl's hair out," drawled Brando. "I let her do it. I thought it would be good for her to get it out of her systern." Now Brando wanted to get their son, Christian Devi, 6, out of Anna's hands and was fighting her in a Los Angeles court for custody of the boy. Under crossexamination, Marlon readily admitted that both Anna and his second wife, Mexican Actress Movita, were pregnant when he married...
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