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After showing a seat pass, reporters going to the courtroom are ushered by helmeted deputies to two successive steel doors, each manned by a deputy, who peers through a wire-glass window. Pockets must be emptied, purses checked. Handkerchiefs are shaken, contact-lens fluid sniffed, ballpoint pen cartridges removed and examined. Everyone is frisked, and then a deputy passes a metal-detecting device over each person. The deputies themselves are scrupulously searched before every session...
This new coalition is still extremely fluid; the differences between the old and new shade of liberalism especially without the unifying pressure of a Presidential primary campaign, appear at some points almost as wide as between the moderate black demands and the suburban whites. But at state conferences, as in Connecticut last weekend, and at national conferences in Minneapolis and St. Louis earlier this fall, the specifics of priorities and programs began to emerge...
...girl, walking out the door remarked, "They told me me what I already knew. All last week I said, 'No, they'll just tell me to go home, take two aspirins, and drink plenty of fluids.' So today they said to me, 'Go home, take two aspirins, and drink plenty of fluid. For this they went to medical school...
...severity of the disease-is the individual victim's constitution and resistance. Some otherwise healthy people are especially susceptible to disabling illness that lasts several weeks. Others can throw off the flu after a week or so, with perhaps half that time spent in bed on a high fluid intake. No medication does much good, except aspirin to ease the discomfort and help lower the fever...
...pictures showed that a tiny fragment of the bullet was wandering about in his ventricles, the fluid-containing cavities deep inside the brain. When Barrios lay flat on his back, the fragment stayed in an upper ventricle. When he stood up, it went into a smaller, lower ventricle. When he lay down again, it tended to drift back up. The great danger was that it would get stuck in the narrow passage between the ventricles, thereby cutting off the fluid that drains into the spinal canal, and causing fatal pressure within Barrios' skull...