Word: two
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, but has also competed with the Hollywood Bowl Association for guest conductors and soloists. Last summer both organizations made a move highly unusual in the music world, turned for advice to McKinsey & Co., a Manhattan firm of management consultants. McKinsey advised that what the two outfits needed was a joint director, added the even more radical suggestion that they consult an executive recruiting firm...
...Two of the new cardinals will be U.S. citizens, bringing U.S. membership in the college to an alltime high of six-ranking in number of cardinals third (after France with seven and ahead of Spain's five). Italy will have 31 Italians in the college, as opposed to 48 non-Italians...
...more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...
Great Advance. By pulling back an inch or two of the stiffening wire, they leave some of the spring pressing against the aortic valve. When the valve's leaves open to let blood out, the tensed spring pushes through, taking the polyethylene tube with it. With the end of this tube in the ventricle, the spring is withdrawn. Diagnosticians can then take samples of blood for a variety of tests, check pressure inside the ventricle, and inject radiopaque dyes for X rays to reveal abnormal or damaged arteries...
During one of Phillip's hospital sieges in Galveston, Mrs. Steven Culpepper. an Abilene housewife with one son of her own, heard of his plight and undertook to care for him. Her aim: major surgery, for permanent correction of Phillip's physical defects. For almost two years, no hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left...