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Everybody Loves Opal (by John Patrick) is a try at sick comedy that merely manages to be unwell. A bizarre trio of crooks consisting of a satanic professor with one lung (Donald Harron), a roly-poly jester (Stubby Kaye), and a bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) who looks nude in clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered...
...Lung: Why Patient May Die Even if Operation "Succeeds...
...straight up in their chairs with an unscheduled addendum: "We recently performed selective brain cooling successfully in a clinical case at Stanford Medical Center." In this way, Dr. Boyd reported an advance that may prove to be as epochal for brain surgery as was the development of the heart-lung machine for operations inside the heart...
...surgical team headed by Dr. John E. Connolly made an incision in the anesthetized patient's neck, to get at one of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain. First they drew out some blood, and added donor blood, to fill the pump-oxygenator ("heart-lung machine"). To this was attached a cooler that chilled the oxygenated blood. The surgeons led this chilled blood into the brain arteries. After about 15 minutes the brain temperature dropped to 68°. The doctors then stopped the flow and clamped all the brain arteries shut. The patient...
...wordwise, science by far outdoes slang in supplying neologisms. Chemistry alone accounts for 17,000 words, culled from 250,000 new derivatives since 1934. Medicine yields the longest word, topping antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45), a lung disease afflicting miners. Conversely, one of the shortest words, set, requires the longest definition -more than a full page, which took one editor 6½ weeks to write...