Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to police, 23 witnesses have come forward to support Van Houten's version of events. A plainclothes policeman, Van Houten was patrolling the perimeter of the park that night, hoping to catch some of the thieves who had been breaking into the cars of doctors from nearby St. Luke's hospital. As Van Houten recounts it, he approached the hospital on the dark side of the street and was attacked from behind by Edmund Perry and an accomplice, who threw him to the ground and beat him nearly unconscious. As his assailants rifled his pockets shouting "Give...
...spokesman for the hostages seemed straight from central casting: a square-jawed, clear-eyed Texan named Allyn Conwell. An oil company executive based in Oman, Conwell was returning from a vacation in the U.S. Showing more aplomb in captivity than Cool Hand Luke, he calmly beseeched his captors and the U.S. alike to "put aside fear, anger and insult" and "let us go home...
...meeting between the fasters and Sovern-the first since the hunger strike began-took place shortly before 6 p.m. in the nurse's lounge of St. Luke's Hospital. Columbia's Presbyterian Chaplain. H. Scott Matheney, acted as an impartial observer. Matheney was unavailable for comment...
...Creighton's time on the heart-lung machine ticked on with no donor heart in sight, Copeland got permission from the patient's family to try an artificial heart. He called Heart Surgeon Cecil Vaughn of St. Luke's Hospital in Phoenix, who for two years has been experimenting with the "Phoenix heart," the invention of Kevin Cheng, a dental surgeon. Vaughn was stunned; the heart was years away from FDA approval and had been tested only twice in animals. "It was like a bomb falling from the sky," he recalls. Still he agreed to helicopter to Tucson immediately with...
...Luke Evnin, Princeton...