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...from Ohio. Glenn slipped on a throw rug, while trying to hoist a mirror back onto its tracks in the bathroom of his Columbus apartment, and cracked the left side of his head against the bathtub. The blow injured his inner ear, disrupting the vital apparatus that governs coordination, equilibrium and balance (see MEDICINE). Glenn had hoped that he would recover in time to resign from the Marines and wage a whirlwind campaign against peppery but aging (74) Democratic Senator Stephen Young before Ohio's May 5 primary. But a panel of specialists who examined him two weeks...
...best known is a set of three semicircular canals. Minute changes in the flow and pressure of the fluid in these canals send the brain such signals as "You're turning to the right." Together, the canals make up what is probably the most important single "organ of equilibrium." But there are others...
...simply that the shock irritated the microscopic nerve endings that pick up signals from the nonhearing organs for transmission to the brain. What is clear is that Glenn's hearing is unimpaired, but when he moves his head, his brain receives garbled signals from his damaged organs of equilibrium. X rays do not show any bone fracture, and the electroencephalograph shows no brain damage...
...until he came to van Gogh's Self-portrait, 1889, oils, 65 x 54 cm., sometimes known as 'Vincent in the Flames'. The description in the catalogue read:' . . .Taut to the breaking point, it testifies to van Gogh's struggle to master his inward turmoil .... An expression of supreme equilibrium on the brink of the abyss...
...perfectly still and then shuffles along with his feet spread far apart. His doctor, Earl W. Brannon, says that the bathtub blow hit just slightly above Glenn's left ear, sending shock waves crashing into his inner ear, possibly causing swelling and some hemorrhaging. "He botched up his equilibrium center to a pretty good degree," explains Brannon...