Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance. By August, Rockefeller had collected delegates enough to turn the state Republican convention into a formality. By September, scarcely pausing for breath, he was on the campaign stump, attracting larger crowds than the most optimistic Republicans had expected. Everyone agreed Nelson Rockefeller was a political golden boy; everyone suggested a different reason why. Said brother Laurance, an amateur psychologist: "He has reached a degree of maturity really free of egotism, fears and frustrations, and is able to project himself into the problems of others." Said amiably disgruntled Leonard Hall: "He's got magic...
...YORK'S Democratic Governor William Averell Harriman, 66, is another multimillionaire who took the high road to politics. His famed father, E. H. Harriman, a onetime messenger boy, parlayed imagination and aggressiveness into a $5 billion empire (Union Pacific Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale...
...operating table, the heart of the baby boy began fibrillating-quivering ineffectually. His surgeons quickly restored blood circulation by manual massage, but that solved nothing. Nearly an hour later, they tried something entirely new: a small (10-milligram) dose of tetraethylammonium chloride injected directly into the child's coronary artery system. Almost immediately the heart began beating regularly again...
...chloride (TEA) on the strength of a report in a Swedish journal that TEA would remove magnesium-caused neuromuscular blocks in other parts of the body. Coupled with an electric shock, TEA promptly defibrillated 44 isolated dog hearts up to eight times each. The technique then saved the baby boy. In four other fibrillating human patients since treated in the same way, it has worked equally well. TEA may be the trick that wall allow considerably longer, cooler, safer heart operations than have been possible...
Voice: I've got a very delicate baby boy up here, doctor. Ten months old. Has a severe cold and 102.6 temperature under the arm. I hesitate to give him anything. Over...