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...lighter vein, Vice Mayor Edward T. Sullivan recalled the early careers of the distinguished seven, telling how Leverett Saltonstall '14 had decided after losing the lieutenant governorship that he might have to content himself with a permanent position as an alderman in Newton...
...Barnum once said you can't cheat an honest man, and in the same vein, you can't expose an honest politician. City Corporation Counsel Herbert W. Gleason '50 accused Garguilo of being politically motivated, and said she lacked an understanding of accepted business practices. With a staff of seven, the finance commission should be allowed a few errors because of sloppy work. And it has only erred on details, not substantive issues...
Mamiya knew beforehand where the vital coronary arteries were seriously blocked, but he took one final look at the X rays and compared them with what he saw in front of him. Then he proceeded. Taking one piece of vein from the leg, he grafted it to three points on the heart's surface, thus making sequential or "leapfrog" bypasses around two blocked sections of the arteries in a single maneuver. With another piece of the same vein, he made a third bypass...
...blood coursed through the new "arteries," Mamiya checked the connections for tightness and started the final phase of his task. Because the remaining vein segments from the left leg were too narrow, he ordered the right leg opened and its saphenous vein removed. Taking two pieces of this vein, which proved to be of heavier caliber, he anchored them to the aorta; then he attached one to the posterior descending coronary artery, the other to the left anterior descending artery. In effect, he had used the first three bypasses to clear traffic through the clogged local streets-and the aortic...
...documentaries or scripted films. "I may make a movie about the strike against J.P. Stevens in North Carolina--a documentary--or a scripted film about a fire in a textile plant in 1911 where 140 women died. But I want to make films that work for social change, whatever vein that's in." And the Boston premiere is a benefit for The Film Fund, a group seeking to find money for filmmakers interested in making films that promote social change...