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...rays confirmed the diagnosis: little Denise has a connecting passage between her esophagus and her windpipe, and the upper section of the esophagus ended before it reached her stomach. Further examination showed that there was no opening at the lower end of the baby's digestive tract. The X rays also suggested an abscess blocking a perforated small bowel. The big question at Salt Lake City's Latter-Day Saints Hospital was: Would little (4 lb.) Denise live long enough for a hastily assembled team of doctors to attempt an operation...
...months after the operation-Denise weighed 6 lbs. and seemed to be thriving. She is not yet out of danger, but Surgeon Beveridge is confident enough to have set up a tentative schedule for further operations. By the time Denise is one, he hopes to open her digestive tract and close the colostomy; when she is two, he will rebuild the esophagus by transplanting a loop of her intestines. Beveridge now admits: "I really never thought Little Mouse would last...
Next month the best-known Hasidic community in Williamsburg, congregation Yetev Lev, headed by the famed, venerable (about 75) Satmar rabbi, Joel Teitelbaum, will begin building ranch-style and split-level houses on a 500-acre tract in Mount Olive Township. N.J. Besides the houses (average price: $15,000), the congregation plans to build a mikveh (ritual bath), a shopping center, a matzoth bakery, a rabbinical seminary and a synagogue. A number of Hasidic Jews who operate garment factories in lower Manhattan plan to move them to a tract adjacent to their new homes. Ultimately, the move to the suburbs...
...homes in a building tract go, the new ones in Woodland West, a 1,500-unit development in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, had all the features that sell...
Walt Kelly is usually preaching a sermon, and that--aside from his wonderful drawings--is a secret of his charm. The sermon is a kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they...