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...before his concept was tried, Conrey was killed in an aircraft-carrier landing accident. But now he has won post-mortem recognition. In a report on tests made at Mesa in 1964, the Navy has predicted "a definite and vital place in future aviation" for the circular runway...
...Post-mortem studies show that, with prompt detection and proper treatment, half of those who die of head injuries could have been saved. Lasting or delayed disability could be similarly reduced, reported Pakistani-born Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at Bethesda, Md. Detection, however, is doubly difficult in the peculiar and treacherous kind of injury known as "whiplash"-the result of the sudden forward-and-backward snapping of the head that is common in rear-end auto accidents...
Carried with Credit Cards. Some schools used to refuse a body if any surgery at all−even as routine as an appendectomy−had ever been performed on it. Now most insist only that the body be intact (not mutilated, as after many accidents). Post-mortem subjects and commercially embalmed bodies are also unsuitable. The schools themselves use special embalming techniques for preservation. Most schools have developed what they call "bequeathal kits" of legally valid forms: several issue a wallet card (see cut), to be carried at all times along with the driver's license and credit cards...
There has been much confusion between chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and some British authorities are inclined to believe that they are the same disease. Not so, said Dr. Ebert. Bronchitis, by definition, is inflammation and consequent obstruction of the branches of the windpipe. Post-mortem examinations have recently shown that one victim may have suffered from severe bronchitis and a little emphysema while another may have had the reverse. To distinguish between these two types in living patients with labored breathing, said Dr. Ebert, is surprisingly difficult. In fact, there is a continuous spectrum ranging from patients with pure bronchitis...
Traitors & Scalawags. In their prolonged post-mortem on the 1964 election, most Republicans could agree to the fact that it had been an awful show. Beyond that, there was static from all parts of the party. Cried Actor Ronald Reagan, co-chairman of California's Citizens for Goldwater and an early-form pick among right-wingers for the state's 1966 gubernatorial nomination: "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended." Between rounds of golf, Goldwater himself took time out to lambast such middle-roading Republicans...