Word: jugulars
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What made this otherwise routine case remarkable was that the donor was a dead boy of twelve, who had drowned in a nearby lake. After all attempts to revive him had failed, Pathologists Jack Kevorkian and Glenn W. Bylsma did an autopsy and withdrew two pints from a jugular vein. This was 2½ to 3 hours after death. To make sure that no germs had got into the blood (which would make it unsafe for transfusion), samples were incubated for two weeks. The woman patient had no unfavorable reactions to the transfusions of cadaver blood, is now well...
...Jugular Area. Born in Buffalo and raised in Milwaukee, Walter Heller early decided on the shape of his career: "I wanted to combine the academic background with public service." He acquired a respect for learning and for public service from his German-born father, a civil engineer whom Heller recalls as an ''immensely wide reader. As a child I took for granted a range of parental information that as a parent I have never been able to live up to myself. My father knew the answer to every damn question a kid could think...
...graduate specialty Heller chose finance and taxation. "It seemed to me the critical area, the jugular area, of Government economic policy." Heller has remained a "policy-oriented" economist. His career has been a shuttling back and forth between the university campus and Government bureaus...
...fact, one of the most interesting features of Monday night's episode was the inhibitions both men seemed to feel; both Nixon and Kennedy have been known to exhibit an "instinct for the jugular" in dealings with their party colleagues, yet neither was willing even to try to finish off his man before 70 million television viewers. Although a little ruthlessness may well be what the Presidency needs (and although both candidates have in the past displayed adequate supplies of this rather debatable virtue), ruthlessness does not sell well on television, so Kennedy and Nixon have thus far avoided...
Down to the Bone. How did Stubbs learn his art? One contemporary described a scene that took place in a farmhouse in Lincolnshire. "The first subject that [Stubbs] prepared was a horse which was bled to death by the jugular vein. A Bar of Iron was then suspended from the ceiling . . . and the animal was suspended to the iron bar. [Stubbs] first began by dissecting the muscles of the abdomen proceeding thro five different layers ... Then he proceeded to dissect the head ... he made careful designs and wrote the explanation which usually employed him a whole day. He then took...