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Coach Tony Coma's squad, which consists of only seven players due to injuries, disputes, and ineligibilities, was simply outmanned, outgunned, and out-muscled by the taller and more talented Crimson...
...Coma's squad, which was featured in an article in the current issue of Sports Illustrated, would not cooperate and matched Harvard basket for basket until the Crimson's spurt to its nine point cushion in the second half...
...provide for him. Then his parents changed their minds, and social workers returned the boy-even though he expressed fear of his father. Four months later, according to police, the father beat the boy senseless. Johnny's skull was crushed. After lying for four weeks in a coma, he died. As a result, an Illinois senate committee has been holding hearings on whether to change child-care laws to resemble those of California, where "due weight" is given to the child's own wishes about custody if he "is of sufficient age and capacity to reason...
...more." Schur reassured his patient that he had not forgotten. "When he was again in agony, I gave him a hypodermic of two centigrams of morphine. He soon felt relief and fell into a peaceful sleep. I repeated this dose after about twelve hours. He lapsed into a coma and did not wake up again...
...only alive but well, thanks to the first successful flushing, or "total body washout," of a patient's circulatory system. Colonel Gerald Klebanoff of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, attempted the pioneering procedure af-ter Olson had been in a coma for three days and showed no indications of reviving. Klebanoff and his team hooked the unconscious airman to a conventional heart-lung machine that pumped the toxic blood from his body. In place of the blood they introduced a clear salt solution that cooled Olson's body to 85°. This reduced...