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...pyloroplasty," or widening the gate valve between stomach and duodenum by slitting its muscular ring, or "sphincter" (fourth diagram). The tissue is stretched, then the slit is closed at right angles. Such operations (there are several variants) had been around since 1886, but not until 1947 did Dr. Joseph Weinberg of the Long Beach (Calif.) VA Hospital try the promising combination of vagotomy and pyloroplasty. A vagotomy by itself tends to make the stomach flaccid so that it does not empty fast enough; opening its outlet comes close to restoring nature's timing. This approach appeals to such surgeons...
...operations or combinations of them at St. Clare's Hospital, and reached a surprising conclusion: the best operation for most patients is "antrectomy" -removal of 35% to 40% of the stomach and hooking the remainder to the duodenum. Dr. Madden dismissed vagotomy alone as unsatisfactory, and gave the Weinberg operation a low rating because too often it fails to effect a cure...
...ever made a more stirring address to businessmen," said Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg, "and in 30 years I've heard a lot of them...
...Harvard, and taught at both Harvard and Princeton. He was an editorial writer for McGraw-Hill's Business Week when he joined the draft-Ike movement in 1951. After six years with Ike, Hauge was lured away from the White House in 1958 when ubiquitous Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg. a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., persuaded him to become chairman of the finance committee at Manufacturers Trust Co. When Manufacturers merged with the Hanover Bank last year. Hauge became vice chairman, a job in which he was charged mainly with managing the bank's large investment portfolio...
...will depend largely on whether the President can persuade Congress to vote a sizable cut in income taxes. U.S. businessmen, enthusiastically on the President's side for a change, view the proposed tax cut much as a company might view a loan. Says influential Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg, partner of the investment banking house of Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "It's just like when General Motors invests in a new plant?it gets its money back over a period of years...