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...hospital by ambulance. Emergency room physicians stabilized his condition and transferred him to a special laboratory for a delicate experimental procedure. A long, thin plastic tube was inserted into an artery in his leg and gently pushed through the blood vessels all the way up into the aorta to the coronary arteries. A radiopaque substance was injected into the coronary vessels, and X-ray pictures were taken, revealing a blood clot. Doctors infused an anticlotting drug through the tube. Within an hour, the clot had dissolved, blood flow was reestablished, and Clendenen was spared extensive heart damage...
...only a few yards away. One shattered the two joints of the ring finger of his left hand, ricocheted and grazed his right arm. The other blasted into his abdomen, passing completely through his body and ripping up the Pope's intestines but narrowly missing his pancreas, abdominal aorta and spine. For 5 hr. 25 min., as rumors flew around the world and hospital patients in bathrobes mingled with Italian dignitaries and journalists to exchange shocked speculation, surgeons labored to take out several pieces of the Pope's intestine and perform a colostomy, which would remove wastes outside...
Most Sadistic Show: ABC's That's Incredible, which, in the search for thrills and ratings, has caused one man nearly to lose a foot, another to burn his fingers to stumps, and a third to suffer several fractures and a ruptured aorta...
...stunt's sponsor, ABC's thrill-pandering series That's Incredible! While gawkers gawked and cameras whirred, Wells, a professional stunt man, gunned a motorcycle up a ramp, sailed over the water fountains outside the showplace, but crashed on his descent. Result: a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower...
DIED. Walter Kaufmann, 59, German-born professor of philosophy at Princeton, whose biographical and interpretive studies of 19th century German thinkers (Hegel, Nietzsche) and literary and philosophical anthologies (Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre) have been handbooks for both undergraduates and scholars; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton...