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...sultry weekend, David Barr, 24, of Joliet, Ill., headed for Crab Orchard Lake in the southern part of the state. In his impatience to escape the heat, Barr dived right in without first testing the depth of the water, plummeted to the bottom and broke his neck...
Such critical accidents are not uncommon. "Trauma"-which in medical parlance includes injuries from all accidents-trails only heart disease and cancer as the nation's leading killer, and claims more than 100,000 American lives a year. However, Barr was more fortunate than most accident victims: he lived in Illinois. Borrowing from the speedy evacuation and emergency medical systems developed by the armed forces in Viet Nam, Illinois has established a unique, statewide trauma-care system to treat accident victims. It is in effect a highly coordinated system of communication and facilities that can mobilize the whole state...
...received a standing ovation at Riverfront Stadium as he socked his 16th home run of the season. He tipped his cap rounding the bases, a gesture he had declined to make since the beginning of the season. Last week he blasted another four-bagger off San Francisco Pitcher Jim Barr to bring his totals to 20 home runs and 59 RBls. No other hitter in either league is even close...
These have long been the public's favorite area of Picasso's work; to some degree they still are, and the desire to treat Picasso as if he had been a master from birth has absurdly inflated them. Thus Alfred Barr once wrote that a Picasso of 1905, Boy Leading a Horse (10), "makes the official guardians of the 'Greek' traditions such as Ingres ... seem vulgar or pallid." Rather, the Blue and Pink periods contain the most accessible images Picasso ever produced-sensitive, mannered and drenched in pathos. Those who have problems decoding the intricate Cubist...
...Some of Barr's notions show more passion than thought. What, for instance, is a "dangerous child"? And some of his ideas about sex sound as if they came from a manifesto issued by a corporate state. Still, he is eminently readable and endlessly provocative...