Word: eyepatch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bleak stretch of Lake Michigan shore line in Illinois. The rest is a troubling bundle of loose ends. There are unrequited loves and an assumed name, a quest for comfort and sudden flight, enigmatic letters and a lethal dose of drugs. There is a quixotic gumshoe with a black eyepatch and beard. He was hired by the victim's uncomprehending family and insists Janice Runkle was murdered. Says her sister Christine Runkle Casselman: "We feel that she might have found out something she wasn't supposed to know...
These operations take an hour, are done under general or local anesthesia and cost about $3,000. The patient wears an eyepatch for a day or so. After a month the stitches are removed with almost no scarring. In 15 years, Barraquer has done about 4,000 operations with apparently good results. Most people see without glasses almost as well as they did previously with glasses. But the operations are not for everyone. Dr. Casimir Swinger of Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center, one of those who has recently brought the procedures to the U.S., says that they should...