Word: hillcrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young James McCIain was pathetically small and weak when he started his family's procession into the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa three years ago. The boy had suffered since birth from a narrowing of the valve between his heart and lungs, and a hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...
Last week, Hillcrest cardiologists and surgeons completed their examination of an eight-year-old brother, Richard, and decided to schedule him for an open-heart operation that will make medical history: he will be the fifth member of his family to have surgery for virtually identical heart defects. The only other child, Josephine, who is seven, has been thoroughly tested and seems perfectly normal...
...office on a severely limited schedule of appointments and public speeches; Bette Davis, 54. 1963 Oscar nominee, confined to her room at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, battling flu; Ted Weems, 62. bandleader, on the critical list after an emergency tracheotomy to aid breathing (tentative diagnosis: stroke), at Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa...
...reveal my own anxiety in reflecting my pleasure at finding an appraisal of the American scene that agrees with my own observations. It is good to find confirmation of my own prejudices and feelings in a quarter as significant as that of TIME. (THE REV.) C. EUGENE SILL Hillcrest Congregational Church Pleasant Hill, Calif...
...example is Grosse Point High School's Tony Lott, accepted by Dartmouth, although he scored 470 on the English achievement test. He weighs 202 Ibs. and is a varsity football guard. (He "might" go out for football at Dartmouth.) Walter Empson of Hillcrest High School in Dallas averaged only 600 on the tests, but was president of the student council and a star basketball player. His letter from Princeton was no surprise: "The coach told me some time ago that I was pretty well in." This sort of thing evokes the words of a top Eastern college representative...