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...decades doctors had tried to divert air from the windpipe back up into the blocked-off pharynx. But such efforts inevitably failed; food and water would get into the windpipe, causing choking. In 1969 Dr. Mario Staffieri of Piacenza, near Milan, Italy, tried a new approach, inspired by a famous case in medical annals. Forty years earlier, a Chicago iceman, suicidally depressed by the loss of his voice after a laryngectomy, had plunged an ice pick into his throat. Instead of dying, he regained the ability to speak; he had accidentally pierced the esophagus wall in a way that gave...
...Canadiens are not renowned for blowing two-goal leads in the third period of Stanley Cup final games, and Mario Tremblay provided the insurance goal at 14:48. Risebrough passed the puck to Yvon Lambert along the far boards; Lambert's centering pass went in off Tremblay's skate...
...after 69 minutes and 33 seconds of hard-fought, intense struggle, Yvon Lambert took a perfect cross-ice pass from teammate Mario Tremblay and without hesitation slipped the puck between the pads of Bruin goalie Gilles Gilbert. The shot gave Montreal a 5-4 come-from-behind win and the sudden-death semifinals-winning goal that the 17,453 in attendance and most of Canada had been praying...
...week. First, in the Vatican's stately Pauline Chapel, the Pope kept a promise to a Rome street-cleaner's daughter who had boldly asked him to officiate at her wedding. The glowing bride, Vittoria lanni, 22, received a papal buss and so did the nervous groom, Mario Maltese, 24. "May you have long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast of The Goldsmith's Shop, a play...
...would hold power in Lisbon. The Socialists, who are the largest party in the fractious Assembly, rejected the previous government, which was formed last summer by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, an apolitical technocrat, at the behest of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action was "unconstitutional" and an example of haughty...