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Shaken Government. As the plane neared London, last stop before the hop across the Atlantic, Soblen stabbed himself in the abdomen with a steak knife while McShane was out of the compartment. Soblen was not attempting to commit suicide; he was trying to wound himself just enough to be hospitalized in Britain, thereby gaining time to try to obtain asylum...
Wads of Trouble. "We'll try to keep her breathing,'' promised the anesthesiologist. "We'll try." At 2 a.m., three hours after she was born, Denise was carried into the operating room. As soon as he sliced into her abdomen. Surgeon Robert Beveridge saw that her troubles were even worse than he had suspected. "Her organs looked as if someone had just wadded them in his fist and thrown them in there,'' he said. He drained off the abscess that was blocking the infant's small bowel. Next Beveridge sewed a tube into...
...Plethora of Puzzles. Some ten hours after Marshall left home on that hot, dusty day, his dead body was found face down beside his truck on his rolling ranch property. There were five bullet holes in his abdomen and chest, four in his back. There was blood on the side of his truck. His .22-caliber bolt-action rifle lay nearby...
...This is like Dieppe," said dazed ex-War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, 59, after a visit to Manhattan's jam-packed Peppermint Lounge to view the nation's newest dance craze, the abdomen-wrenching Twist. "I'm glad I was there, but I don't ever want to go again...
...implantation is done in one operation. Surgeon Chardack opens the chest to get the electrode into the heart wall and leads the connecting wire through a tunnel under the skin to another incision in the abdomen, just to the left of the navel. He sets the pacemaker on a bed of abdominal muscle. Only 2 by 3 by ½ in., it is so compact that the patient can bend double without feeling it. The battery should last four to five years, and failure is not fatal. The heart jogs along until the battery is replaced...