Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UPPER MADISON AVENUE
...starts measuring upward. He measures off 6 ft., or about one-third of the bowel's average total length of 15 to 20 ft. At this point, he sews the bowel tube shut, then makes a cut just above it. He takes the free end of the upper small bowel, pulls it down to the large bowel just below the ileocecal valve. Then he cuts a hole in the side of the large bowel, and sews the small bowel to it. The 6-ft. length of the lower end of small bowel is not removed but left like...
...surprise in the Council race was the fine showing of Mrs. Wheeler, who is considered a spokesman for Cambridge's upper class. She ran tenth in 1961, when she was seeking a second term, and rejoined the Council only when Councillor G. d'Andelot Belin resigned to join the Treasury Department in December...
They hooked up the tiny 7-lb. 3-oz. child to a heart-lung machine. Then they took the venae cavae, the two great veins that carry used blood back to the heart, cut them away from their normal position leading into the right upper chamber (auricle) and led them over to the left side. As near simultaneously as possible, the team of surgeons took the pulmonary veins, which carry oxygenated blood from lungs to heart, and severed them from the left auricle. They stitched the venae cavae to the places where the pulmonary veins had entered the left auricle...
...Faculty committee has begun investigating the entire application and selection procedures by which freshmen are placed in the nine upper-class Houses...