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...score the ancients were right. The heart is essential to life in a more immediate, temporal sense than any other organ, even the brain. The human body can survive for years in a coma, with no conscious brain function -but only for minutes without a beating heart. So the presence of a heartbeat, along with breathing, has long been the basic criterion for distinguishing life from death. It still is, in the vast majority of cases, despite some special situations in which the brain's electrical activity is a more reliable index. (So far, no surgeon has seriously considered...
...Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, 58, resting at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Medical Center after surgical removal of a cataract in his left eye; Comedian Bert Lahr, 72, rallying at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from severe pneumonia that put him in a coma; Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan, 56, also convalescing at Columbia-Presbyterian after removal of a benign growth near the brain...
...seventh-floor room in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, a 49-year-old man with incurable brain disease lay in a coma one day last week. Alerted that death was hours away, a team of 16 doctors who had been standing by for 48 hours quickly readied two other patients for kidney transplants. First they removed the diseased kidneys of a 16-year-old Manhattan boy and kept him anesthetized on the operating table, the incision in his groin covered with a plastic drape. At the same time, they gave presurgery sedatives to a 48-year...
Died. Carson McCullers, 50, vibrant voice of love and loneliness in the Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until...
...Playboy, he worships the luxurious paraphenalia of modern life. Fellini spurns it. He thinks it stops a man from using his mind. Since religion doesn't explain modern man's existence satisfactorily, he needs a new explanation. But instead of struggling toward it, he collapses into a coma. Society caters to the comatose state with push buttons, sunglasses, cars that ride without jolting you, and a vacant-eyed model as the symbol of womanhood. Parrish should think twice before shoplifting from the enemy camp...