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Yesterday morning, their anger whetted by the suspensions, students continued to man the outlawed tables. Police approached one of the leaders, Jack Weinberg, and asked for his ID card. When he refused, saying it would lead to his suspension, the officers placed him under arrest. Weinberg went limp, and when the university police carried him to a waiting patrol car, hundreds of students sat down on all sides of the vehicle, and prevented it from moving...
...police insisted that Weinberg was under arrest, and said they intended to wait until the mob moved...
Proponents of the Weinberg technique retort that Dr. Weinberg has had a death rate of only one-half of 1% among 1,129 patients since 1947. Thus, they say, even if the cure rate for a first operation is a few percentage points lower than w:th more drastic surgery, this is more than compensated for by the lower death rate...
Something Better. If the surgeons' arguments are not ended, neither are their ingenious efforts to find better ulcer treatments. Dr. Weinberg is still improving his own technique; he now uses only a single row of stitches to close the slit in the pylorus, reducing the risk of a later shutdown. Other surgeons are combining the Weinberg method with the tying-off of blood vessels, especially for bleeding ulcers. Minnesota's Surgeon Owen H. Wangensteen is trying to make fellow surgeons abandon the knife for nearly all ulcer patients and freeze the stomach instead, a procedure that is hotly...
...most that can be said so far of any surgery for ulcers is what modest Dr. Weinberg says of his own technique: "It will have to do until we discover something better...