Word: mixups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell her the truth, for he is certain she is incapable of believing that feet can be switched like umbrellas traded in a restaurant mixup, and will think him mad and dispatch him to psychiatry...
...consume oxygen, and is thus especially dangerous to victims of heart attacks and emphysema. Rather than producing sharply different symptoms, it is likely to exaggerate the difficulties that such patients are already suffering-a medical fact cited by Suburban General as one explanation of the delay in discovering the mixup. Whatever its cause, the grim Suburban story is by no means unique. In June jurors awarded a record $7 million in damages to the family of Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at the Southmore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas. Four years...
Danner said he thought Greyhound was responsible for the mixup. "It's very simple, they just had one bus in the wrong place," Danner said...
Harvard Student Agencies charter buses left 20 Harvard students behind in New York City Sunday because of a mixup between HSA and the Greyhound Bus Company, HSA representative William Danner '78 said yesterday...
...Locust. A guady adaptation of Nathaniel West's fine, sparsely sketched novel. Somebody in the Village Voice pointed out that this movie should have looked like Chinatown and China-town should have looked like this. A mixup in cinematographer contracts, no doubt. Good performances by Karen Black and Burgess Meredith make it worth $1.25 at Harvard Square on Monday and Tuesday nights...