Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first human trials of the new technique, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, five patients in severe shock, with catastrophically low blood pressure and with little chance of survival, have been hooked up to the pump. The operation is relatively simple, requiring only an incision in an arm artery, for pressure measurements, and one in the femoral artery for the counterpulse pump tube...
...Paar's late-night talkathon to denounce the tractor trade with Fidel Castro. He gave the commencement address at New York's Long Island University, at the same time picking up his fourth honorary doctorate in ten days (the others were from Arizona State University, Hamilton College, Brigham Young University). He debated on television with New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, was a great hit at a glittery Washington debut party for the daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan. And he gave a typical two-fisted, newsmaking speech to the editors...
...Brigham Young...
...Mormon named Ed Parker, who, he says, learned the deadly, lightning-fast ballet in his native Honolulu in order to avoid getting into fights with friends who taunted him because he did not drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second in January. He frowns upon any ostentatious use of karate, prefers to ram his fist through ten corrugated roof tiles in the privacy of his studio...
Deseret derives its title from the state established by Brigham Young and his Mormons in the Salt Lake Valley...