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Owen Thomas had lived through what is sometimes called a near death experience (NDE), a vivid, memorable sense of sights, sounds and events that occur while an individual is clinically dead or very close to the point of no return. Discussion of this phenomenon and other aspects of dying achieved an almost faddish popularity in the early and mid-1970s, following the publication of two bestsellers: On Death and Dying, a study of terminally ill patients, by Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Life After Life, by Psychiatrist Raymond Moody...
...approaching his far-out subject, Sabom was determined to be "objective and systematic. Patients were asked standardized questions and did not at first know the purpose of his study. Rather than limiting it to people claiming to have had an NDE, as Moody did, Sabom questioned a random sample of patients who had suffered near fatal medical crises, defined as any unconscious bodily state that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance...
Argentine officials had nothing to say about the coup, which was immediately deplored by the governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia, and by Peru's President-elect Fernando Belaúnde Terry. The Bolivian military's action was also strongly denounced by the U.S. State Department, which recalled Ambassador Marvin Weissman for "consultations" and cut off all military and economic aid to the strife-torn country...
...like many of his Western Bund friends, refuses to watch the two U.S.-made westerns currently appearing on West German TV, Gunsmoke and The Virginian. Nobody, he scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren't his fault," he allowed...
...early 1945, as Russian armies approached Peenemünde, Von Braun and many of his staff fled to Bavaria and surrendered to U.S. troops. The Americans recognized the value of their prisoner. Within a few months, he was working under contract to the U.S. Army at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. By 1950, he was placed in charge of guided missile development at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala. In 1960, Von Braun, who had since become an American citizen, was named director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville and charged with building...