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...Boerema ruled out the use of a heart-lung machine because that, too, seemed dangerously drastic. Instead, he operated in a chamber at triple atmospheric pressure. With the children breathing 100% oxygen, instead of air with its 20% oxygen, they were getting 15 times the normal supply. They turned pink at once. Dr. Boerema clamped off the great vessels around their hearts to shut off circulation. Unhurriedly, he made a connection between two arteries. Thanks to the oxygen drenching, the children showed no ill effects from the blood-flow shut down, and emerged from the operations with oxygen concentrations...
...Hospital Medical Center in Boston, where surgery on children's hearts was born under the meticulous scalpel of Dr. Robert E. Gross in 1938, Dr. William F. Bernhard wanted to try the Boerema technique. First he went to Newport to ask the Navy for an old compression chamber. The Navy wasted no time telling him to go home: just the tank he wanted had been gathering dust since 1934 in a Harvard lab, only a few yards from Children's Hospital...
Thirteen smiling Poonies the East wing of the council chamber in hopes of offering their alternative legislation. According to Vellucci, "They looked like the type that will wind up down in Washington messing up our international affairs...
Charles A. Coolidge '17, Fellow of Harvard College, and retired Maj. Gen. James McCormack, vice president of M.I.T., are members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Space Committee which backed the project. The electronics center was proposed in the President's budget message January...
...Raven. Once upon a midnight dreary, while he ponders, weak and weary, the hero (Vincent Price) of this picture hears a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door. "Surely," says he, "surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels...