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...Pittsburgh, Lawrence declared: "I've never been prouder of the Democratic Party than with the unity we now have." Then he fell heavily to the floor, pulling the lectern over on his chest. He was taken to a hospital, suffering from cardiac arrest, and lay in a deep coma until his death last week. He never knew that Shapp was decisively beaten on Election Day and that the organization he had so carefully constructed was now in shambles...
...public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering in a coma for four months, Harry Byrd, 79, had seen nearly every political theory he held dear invalidated by the clamorous demands...
...March, a career army officer who in 1960 headed a military junta that toppled and eventually executed Premier Adnan Menderes, then, insisting on a new constitution and free elections in 1961, was voted President in a coalition government; after a series of strokes last February put him into a coma from which he never awoke; in Ankara...
...tried last May to make a free-fall jump from 125,000 ft., was injured when his oxygen system failed during the balloon ascent 57,000 ft. above Minnesota and emergency efforts to get him down did not prevent 31 minutes of oxygen starvation, causing brain damage and a coma from which he never awakened; of cardiorespiratory failure; in Philadelphia...
...reduce objects and even people to the size of a bacterium-for 60 minutes. After a Czech scientist discovers how to prolong miniaturization, U.S. agents spirit him across the Atlantic. Alas, before he can explain the discovery, he is attacked by enemy operatives and left in a coma caused by a blood clot in midbrain. Since no conventional operation is possible, the high command approves a daring plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into the carotid artery by hypodermic needle, with orders to navigate the bloodstream...