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Still, there was no doubt that these were Nixon people; many had quietly financed Republican candidates in the past. One wag dubbed the shindig "the Republocrat Convention." As Connally greeted Fort Worth Oilman W.A. Moncrief, he said to Nixon: "This man is a big giver, Mr. President, and he never asks for anything in return...
Despite such advances, doctors continue to stress that prompt first aid-before the victim reaches the hospital-can reduce both the scope and the seriousness of many burns. The best treatment, they agree, is to cool the burn immediately. Prompt immersion in cold water, says Dr. John Moncrief of the University of South Carolina, has the same effect on a burn as on a lighted match: it "puts out the fire." Equally important, the burn is prevented from spreading, thus minimizing both the damage and the discomfort, maximizing the prospects for recovery...
...from 1928 to 1784, when he falls hopelessly in love with an impoverished girl of the English nobility. Clear Day puts a kooky American girl named Daisy Gamble (Barbara Harris) into a hypnotic trance and transports her back to 1794, when she was the bride of the rakish Edward Moncrief, and was destined to drown in the shipwreck of the Trelawny. With this paleo-romantic glue, Lerner tries to stick together a libretto incongruously torn between the pseudo science of extrasensory perception and the pseudo metaphysics of reincarnation...
Sure enough, Daisy turns out to be the reincarnation of one Melinda Moncrief, the daughter of an 18th century parvenu. Soon we have flashed back to the world of manor houses and wide green lawns, and the gayness which ensues virtually welcomes Mr. Lerner back to his element. Meanwhile Mark, the dashing young shrink, falls in love with Daisy as Melinda (the girl has changed her accent, remember?). Daisy discovers that Mark has fallen for her 18th century model and runs away in tears of frustration. Mark catches her at the airport where she miraculously reintegrates the various centuries...
...Most of the difficulty arises in the fine line that separates anesthesia from convulsions," says Lieut. Colonel John Moncrief, who monitored the project. The Mississippi machine, although still experimental, looks promising: it puts the patient to sleep, keeps him under as long as the current remains constant, permits him to awaken within 60 seconds after the juice is turned off. It uses 22-30 volts, 50 milliamperes, and a frequency that is brought up from 0 to 700 cycles to put the patient under. It causes some spasms, which drugs easily stop, but produces no convulsions, loss of memory...