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DIED. Giulio Natta, 76, co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; of complications following surgery for a fractured femur; in Bergamo, Italy. In 1954, Natta revolutionized plastics technology by developing a method of catalyzing propylene gas into highly ordered chains of molecules that proved useful in the manufacture of fabrics, film, auto parts, detergents and countless other products...
Wicklund, who claims he never gets sick and never gets a cold, said he still runs ten miles a day, despite a recent operation in which doctors replaced a section of an arthritic femur bone with a ten-inch stainless steel shaft...
Still unconscious, Mirando was taken back to the operating room, where his femur (thigh bone) cracked as the surgeons tried to remove the dislocated prosthesis. Unwilling or unable to proceed further, the doctors sent out a rush call to the sales representative for the device, William MacKay, 34, who was playing golf at the time...
...weeks later, disaster struck. As he was being helped by an aide to the bathroom, Hughes slipped and fell, fracturing his right femur. Hughes wanted to be operated on in his hotel room, but British Surgeon Walter Robinson insisted that he would perform the operation only in a hospital. Hughes relented?but he demanded to leave the clinic before the fracture had properly mended. Result: he refused even to try to walk again. From then on, his life, which had seemed on the upturn, took a tragic downward plunge. He was taken to the Xanadu Princess Hotel in Freeport, where...
Hughes had been bedridden since he broke his hip in a fall in 1973, his doctors explained. An operation in London to insert a pin in his femur failed, and Hughes would not submit to a second operation. As a result, he was in constant pain and developed an addiction to codeine. He refused to take other medication or eat properly. Hughes was a despotic, cranky patient who reduced his personal physicians to the status of mere valets. Three days before his death, he went into shock, probably due to a stroke. As his condition worsened, his aides became gravely...