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...family for the inconvenience of his miracle ("We're Before and After people now," laments his wife). His life after death, not surprisingly, becomes a downhill slide: the authorities strip him of his children, his neighbors stone him and his wife commits suicide. Finally, he completes his mortem interruptam...
Another wave of applause carried Bond to the podium. Pulling a folded manuscript from his pocket, he casually looked out over the audience and remarked, in what sounded like a whisper, "Well, that's the obituary...now for the post mortem." The audience could relax now--Bond had acknowledged their presence...
...turned into the nation's longest, least popular war. The heady awareness of opportunity that infects the entire G.O.P. assemblage is a measure of the distance the party has come since the dismal post-Goldwater days. When the Republican Governors met in Denver to conduct a post mortem on the 1964 election, the party was at its nadir. It had lost the presidency by the greatest popular margin in history. The Democrats had swollen 2-to-1 majorities in both the Senate and the House, and 33 of the nation's 50 Governors as well...
...After the 1960 campaign," Richard Nixon recalled last week, "Jack Kennedy and I got together for a post mortem. We agreed that while people usually judge a candidate by the number of miles he covers and the number of hands he shakes, that kind of campaign is madness. With modern communications, it is also a waste of time...
...Post-mortem examination disclosed patches of pneumonia, caused by "a very virulent form of germ," in both of Washkansky's lungs. Drugs given to suppress the immune reaction had inevitably made the patient more susceptible to such an infection. Chief Surgeon Barnard summed up: "I wouldn't like to call this operation an experiment-it was treatment of a sick patient. Although Washkansky died, I don't think we have any evidence that transplantation is not good treatment for certain heart diseases. And we certainly have not found any evidence to discourage us from continuing...