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...tests show that a patient's clotting time is not unduly prolonged, they say, the surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most...
...church and state (TIME, Oct. 10). Sharp criticism of the Puerto Rican bishops' pastoral letter came from an editorial in the Jesuit weekly America. "Such a prohibition," the magazine argued, "is unprecedented in American Catholic history. Catholics in the United States cannot but wonder about the na ture of a situation which would persuade church leaders to embark on a course of action so open to misinterpretation, not to say futility...
...operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort of tie it up with Campobello and all that. To me, he never wavered on his path. I never knew what it was, but it was obviously toward the presidency...
Katims began winning converts by put ting on children's and family concerts, en couraging and lecturing to musical study groups, offering "balanced" programs ranging from Rossini's Semiramide Over ture to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra...
Though the director has caught some visual excitement in Paris, his camera is mostly cold and apathetic. But the pic ture is blessed with urbane Gallic polish, some satiric set pieces, and another en gaging performance by Actor Gabin, who at 55 is still the No. 1 male box-office draw of French films...