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...increasing the very hazard that he is trying to diminish. Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike become hypnotized because the beautiful highway demands too little from them to keep them alert. If the highway itself does their driving for them, they may fall even deeper into drivers' coma. The cars will speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing road. Then some irregularity-an electronic failure or a blown...
...days it was touch & go for Roger Brodie, the bigger but weaker of the skull-joined Siamese twins, separated in an operation that made medical history (TIME, Dec. 29). Roger continued to exist in a deep coma, but that was all. Late one night last week he died. At the University of Illinois' Neuropsychiatric Institute in Chicago, doctors listed pressure on the vital centers at the base of the brain as one cause of death. Actually, the wonder was not what killed 16-month-old Roger but how he had stayed alive so long...
...twin, Roger, gave no such hopeful signs. He was in a deep coma, barely staying alive on an ounce of formula every half-hour by a tube through the nose. The doctors could not be sure what minute might be his last...
...doctors called Roger's condition "precarious." He was still in a deep coma, his brain numbed by scant circulation because the operation had left him without a sagittal vein to carry blood from the top of the brain back toward the heart. Roger had no life functions except the most elemental and automatic: breathing, digestion and elimination. Rodney, who got the sagittal vein which the twins had formerly shared, drifted in & out of sleep. Awake, Rodney showed the same powers of observation and speech as before the operation, but was still groggy from the ordeal. His condition was "critical...
Rodney soon began to improve, and the doctors had high hopes that he would live to have a metal brainpan fitted in the top of his skull, and grow up. Roger fought for life, but was still in a coma this week...