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...When the abdominal cavity began to fill with fluid, radioactive phosphorus checked the process. Bronchopneumonia was cured by an antibiotic. Cancer spread to the liver, and again X-rays were used. As liver function progressively declined, many medical measures supported the patient. If some of these treatments had been withheld, said Dr. Karnofsky, the patient would have died within weeks or days. Successively, they kept him alive for ten months. Dr. Karnofsky asked, "When should the physician stop treating this patient?" and answered: "I believe he must carry on until the issue is taken out of his hands...
...University has released Le Corbusier's dramatic plans for the Visual Arts Center. It has released them virtually intact, and in this the community has been fortunate, for it was not always clear that a desire to save money would not seriously tamper with them. Indeed, the Corporation originally withheld approval of the building designs because its members found contractors' estimates unexpectedly high. For a short but nervous period, they were confronted with a choice among footing the bill, searching for lower estimates, and altering the architect's plans...
Murder Mistake. When World War II came, Ngo Dinh Diem withheld his support from all three of the forces tusseling for control of the country?the Japanese, the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communists, although they all sought his cooperation. At war's end, Ho's agents arrested Diem and hauled him off to the mountains of the north. For good measure, they shot Diem's older brother, Khoi, a provincial chief who had fought the Reds. Months later, Ho personally summoned Diem, demanded that he take a post in the new national government that...
...last meeting the Corporation withheld approval so that construction estimates could be examined more closely. The President and Fellows found that building estimates far exceeded what they had planned to spend. This second delay is, of course, also disappointing, but the Corporation is wise in holding its approval until it has a fair and reasonable estimate. In view of some of the extravagances and blunders evident in University buildings, it is heartening to have the University concerned with getting a straightforward appraisal and efficient...
Pulliam seemed mollified by Salinger's explanation, e.g., "The President has stated on several occasions that only information affecting the national security will be withheld. He . . . would welcome reports of any violations of that policy." But what the A.S.N.E. panelists got was limping generality. "We live in a different world." Salinger told them-a world in which the accredited presidential-press-conference contingent has swollen from 200 in Franklin D. Roosevelt's time to 1,000 today. Furthermore, said Salinger coldly, despite complaints, television is here to stay...