Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Machine as Master. To decide just when the human spirit is gone, just when the intricate machinery should be turned off and the heart allowed to stop, is far more than a legal problem. It involves the doctor as deeply as it does the patient or his anguished kin. Trained from his first day in medical school that his duty is to save and prolong life, the physician may not only resort to extraordinary measures, but he may continue them even after a flat EEG line (meaning no electrical activity in the brain) has persisted so long that there...
...expedite just such matters, U.S. consulates have specially trained personnel. Standard procedure calls for working with members of the family, if they are present, or cabling them for instructions if they are not (all passport applications list next of kin). The family is requested to deposit money with the State Department to defray the expenses (minimum cost from Europe, $1,100 including embalming and transportation). In most instances the deceased is homeward bound within three to four days. Delay does occur, however, when the deceased has left a will specifying how and where he wishes to be buried...
...through, rather than Russians sucked under in emotional quicksands. Chekhov's night music of the soul, so beautifully attuned in Director William Ball's 1958 off-Broadway revival, is jangled here. At its purest, it is an ineffable resonance of laughter and tears, making the whole world kin. It is unthinkable that anyone who loves Chekhov would miss the Gielgud production, and equally unthinkable not to regret what is missing...
...kin to Manhattan Management Consultant John Diebold (TIME cover...
...Named after an old Richmond family, no kin to the medical Mayos of Minnesota...