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...eagerly hoped-for day had arrived. Staggering into an operating room, he got a nurse to sterilize his midriff and hands, help him into a sterile smock and mask. Then he clambered onto the operating table. When Chief Surgeon Mikio Takahashi protested, Dr. Ohmura replied: "I have only one appendix; it's my only chance...
Startling Growth. For 1957 he ventured no crystal-gazing beyond a cautious prediction that "the nation's overall prosperity will be extended into the months ahead." But the Economic Report's special appendix on U.S. population trends peered two decades ahead, and what it saw was a period of startling growth that could well spur a major business expansion. Back in 1946, when U.S. population stood at 140 million, experts predicted that it would expand to 153 million in 1960, reach an ultimate peak of 165 million in 1990 or thereabouts. In fact, the population passed...
...memento of young Ike's determination to let nothing interfere with his Army career. On the theory that his appendix "might kick up sometime when I was real busy," he had it removed during a period of relative inactivity...
...When John S. Keefe, 27, was on the operating table at the Somerville (Mass.) Hospital last May for an emergency appendectomy, surgeons found his appendix all right, but there was a tumor in his right kidney, so they removed the kidney. Only afterward did they learn that Keefe had never had a left kidney; despite artificial-kidney aid and a wistfully hopeful transplant, he died. Now his widow, who gave birth to their son after her husband's death, is suing Dr. John A. Fraser and Dr. G. Stanley Miles...
Structurally, the account has a rather odd appearance. The first hundred pages describe the author's introduction to hypnosis, extrasensory perception and, finally, reincarnation. Then come a hundred pages of interview in which Ruth Simmons becomes Bridey Murphy. The book ends with an impressive-looking thirty pages of appendix (twelve appendices). In the first part Bernstein's technique is clever. Setting himself up as a "real skeptic," he plunges into each subject with the determination of a bloodhound. Of hypnosis he had thought, "That's strictly for the lunatic fringe." However, by ecclectically drawing from whatever sources he can find...