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Four times in the past 19 years, Austin Attorney Ralph W. (for Webster) Yarborough had glad-handed his way across Texas in tireless battles for state office (attorney general, governor). Four times he failed-and before the last time former Governor Allan Shivers began to call him a "three-time loser." Last week Texas Liberal Yarborough, 53, took a fifth swing, this time at the 21-month, unexpired term in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Price Daniel-who beat Yarborough for governor last year. Candidate Yarborough hit a home...
SPEEDY "DAN'L WEBSTER," New Haven Railroad's $1,500,000 new light train, which broke down on a trial run (TIME, Jan. 21), is back on the tracks, will make three one-way trips daily between New York and Boston...
...fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...
...sets by Webster Lithgow were imaginative without being distracting. Michyl Veach's costumes not only covered the required territory, but occasionally added to the local color. Director James Paul paced the play with a properly professional skill. Some very bright behind-the-scenes work was done by choreographer Liz Keen. Miss Keen is not only imaginative, but she fully exploited the possibilities of her dubious dancers...
...Southern Methodist University's Jim Krebs is an oversized (6-ft.-8-in.) high-school flash from Webster Groves (Mo.) who.practiced for two years to sandpaper his game to its present smoothness. Now he can hold his own with the best. A cautious, careful player who thinks his way around a court, Krebs sports a hard, shallow hook shot that has started S.M.U. on a Southwest Conference title-winning kick.