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Perhaps it is more than coincidence that the new program will be initiated by two members of the Kennedy Institute. Barney Frank '62, special assistant to the director of the Institute and Jonathan Moore, a fellow of the Institute, will conduct a post mortem of the recent elections at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Union's Parlor B. In the Kennedy Institute style, there will only be 100 tickets...
...assassination, the X rays and photographs were available to investigators, but none felt it necessary to inspect them after hearing the minutely detailed testimony of the three autopsy surgeons. The doctors themselves had never seen the photographs either, though they had worked from the X rays during the post-mortem surgery...
...they trust his judgement, they are often afraid to hear it handed down. When he dissects a Loeb effort, his charm can give way to an icy directness. Most leads and directors do end up wandering into his office for a post-mortem. Says one HDC executive, "If you ask him, he gives it to you straight -- right between the eyes. He judges everything from a professional standpoint. That's a good influence...
...Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965) were published in London by the Sunday Times, in the U.S. by LIFE, and last week all of Britain was arguing about them. "Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror. The medical journal Lancet noted icily that "the public's trust in the medical profession derives largely from its conviction that what transpires between patient and doctor will not be bandied about," and the British Medical Association rushed out a warning...
DeRudder had not regained consciousness after the long, dramatic operation. The post-mortem examination showed why. Part of a clot, found in the left auricle during surgery, had evidently broken away, traveled to DeRudder's brain, and blocked a major cerebral artery. Surgeon DeBakey was buoyed by the fact that the pump's own firm but gentle action had created no clotting problems, though DeRudder had had them earlier...