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The 19-year-old boy who was rolled into the operating room of St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley, Ill. had no history of heart trouble, so Surgeon Russell Simonetta confidently ordered an anesthetic : cyclopropane, after an intravenous injection of thiopental sodium. Within two hours, Dr. Simonetta, assisted...
The first man to see potential wealth in the Sahara was a brilliant but unstable French geologist named Conrad Kilian. In 1927, after three harrowing years in the central Sahara-on one expedition he was obliged to remove his own tonsils without anesthetic-Kilian returned to Paris proclaiming that the...
In the grey, glum village square of the town of Kildare (pop. 2,617), a big red sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician...
Meeting the press in Washington after her return from space, Monkey Able seemed chipper, jumping around and throwing things almost as if she were fresh from a peaceful monkey house. But after her moment of glory, she was flown off to Fort Knox, Ky., where Army Dr. Thomas Davis noticed...
First there was the problem of keeping his religion from growing rusty; he rose each day at 5:30 a.m., put in an hour's study of the Talmud before early service at Milwaukee's Beth Jehuda Synagogue, where he is assistant rabbi. Medical school classes began at...