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...could only dream about. He openly flouted the rules set down by whites, drove expensive foreign cars, dined at exclusive restaurants and made regular trips abroad-usually taking along some comely woman companion. Women were a ubiquitous element in the Powell lifestyle, and even as he lay in a coma in a Miami hospital before his death from cancer last week at age 63 his third wife Yvette and his latest companion, Darlene Exposé, battled in court over his estate...
Thanks to drugs, surgery and mechanical devices, a failing heart need not be fatal. Machines or transplants can also preserve life when the kidneys stop working. The patient whose liver can no longer metabolize and dispose of his body's poisonous wastes, however, eventually lapses into a coma and dies. Exchange transfusions to replace most of his blood may help for short periods, but no machine yet devised can substitute for the organ, and the livers of pigs and calves have proved inadequate to the task of cleansing human blood. Now it appears that in a liver coma crisis...
...knows just how many patients die each year of hepatic coma, but they certainly number in the thousands. Those whose livers have not been irreparably damaged could probably benefit from the Abouna method, which, unlike some other exotic procedures, does not involve long waits or inordinate costs. While baboons are not as plentiful as alley cats, they are being raised in several U.S. primate colonies, and as they only cost about $250 apiece, they are relatively inexpensive animals...
Chou En Lai comes to Washington to celebrate May Day with President Nixon. As a prank following the passing a ceremonial opium pipe, Tricia sends two Secret Service men to switch off William O. Douglas's pacemaker. Douglas goes into a coma and retires indignantly from the court. After a brief but heart-felt search by Attorney General Mitchell for a "Black Jewish woman Southern conservative," Nixon announces the appointment of John Dunlop to fill the empty seat, saying, "His work with the building trade industry has earned Professor Dunlop a well-deserved reputation as a strict constructionist." Roman Hruska...
...Colombo family's public pronouncements constituted a weak, improbable case. As Colombo lay in a coma, Mafia and law-enforcement officials awaited developments in what was certainly the opening round of a new Mob conflict. In the past, the emergence of a boss of bosses like Gambino has usually resulted in a war. The modern Mafia was reorganized in the 1930s, and the Commission was established after bloody battles to curb the power of a single leader. Gambino's assertion of leadership?quite apart from the Colombo family's need for revenge?makes it possible that a full-scale battle...