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Hundreds of guys like us didn't know that Freshman Week. Thumbing through the Register night after night, we inevitably ended up on page 90, just below Ingrid Lorentzen Ott and above Heriberto Roman Pagan...
Fewer Deaths. Bypass surgery began with an unplanned and extreme measure taken in November 1964 by Dr. H. Edward Garrett at Houston's Methodist Hospital. Operating on a 42-year-old truck driver named Heriberto Hernandez, Garrett had expected to ream out a short stretch of clogged coronary artery and stitch over it a split piece of vein removed from the patient's own leg-what surgeons call a patch graft. Two main arteries proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit...
There was a roar, said Fire Captain Heriberto Surrey later, "as if a ten-ton aerial bomb had burst." A great jet of flame plumed skyward, cremating two firemen directing hoses atop their telescopic ladders. Dozens of bodies were hurled through the air in all directions. Steel beams and chunks of concrete hurtled through the ranked rings of firemen, police and spectators. Three blocks away, a woman watching at an open window was beheaded by a piece of flying glass. Then oxygen tanks stored in the warehouse began exploding; gasoline and oil drums caught fire and burst, raining like napalm...
Mexico's General HERIBERTO JARA, 71, old revolutionary who fought Porfirio Diaz, former Minister of the Navy (1940-46), delegate to Red peace congresses. Like Moulton, Jara turned down the cash...
...children, joined in the chorus: "We are free and shall be always." The cops started to clear the streets. Stones flew at them. Swinging sabers and tossing tear gas, the mounted police charged. After a few blocks they dismounted and fired into the retreating crowd. Fifteen-year-old Sophomore Heriberto Avellanada was dead with a bullet in his heart, and 19 others, including a few adults, were wounded...