Word: hickeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week wound up, 74-year-old Martin Lacey showed up to verify much of the testimony. The chartering of the Teamster phony locals, he said, tears in his eyes, was the result of "fraud and deception . . . a major conspiracy." Lacey was seconded by Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, Jimmy Hoffa's chief enemy in the Teamsters...
Hole in the Wall. The aorta is the heart's outlet, through which the left ventricle pumps freshly oxygenated blood to the entire body. A weak spot in the wall of Hickey's aorta had ruptured, blowing a hole in the adjoining wall of the right auricle, which draws in used blood from the veins and sends it on its way to the lungs to be oxygenated. Thus a large proportion of the outgoing blood was being short-circuited, clogging the right side of the heart instead of coursing into the arteries. Hickey's heart was laboring...
...While Hickey waited at Walter Reed, his ankles and body slowly swelling with accumulating fluid, researchers at the National Institutes of Health began experimenting on 21 dogs. Seldom has a surgical research project been pushed so fast. The dogs stood up well in the tests. The surgeons felt ready for Hickey...
Water in the Bag. At 8:45 a.m. on Aug. 1, attendants wheeled Hickey into an operating room at NIH. The anesthesiologists knocked him out with sodium pentothal, then put him in a double-jacketed plastic bag up to his neck. Through the bag they circulated ice water. When Hickey was chilled enough so that circulation could be almost stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until...
Last week Hickey lolled on a living-room couch at home, drinking a beer and puffing on a cigarette. Out of the Army with a disability discharge, he was literally a new man. He is going back to finish college, will get into condition meanwhile by taking daytime care of his 2½-year-old son while his wife is at work. "They tell me I'll never be an Olympic star," he said. "But hell, I wasn't an Olympic star before...