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Strategy & Hope. In The Making of the President, Theodore White abandons his unhappy sortie into fiction (The View from the Fortieth Floor) and returns to a field he knows intimately: factual reporting. For more than a year, White, assisted by a legman, roamed the nation on the trail of the seven men who openly aspired to the presidency. For details and events he inevitably missed, he mined the published stories of a thousand reporters. White has used his material well. The campaign of 1960 is recaptured in all its detail and excitement, and White manages to tell his story with...
Because Ben A. had about one-fortieth the normal kidney function, or roughly half what is needed to maintain life, he could let the poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered...
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...View From the Fortieth Floor, White...