Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only visible effect of Ev's new-found role as a pop recording star is that his hair, which was duplicated, ringlet by unruly ringlet, in a recent sculpture by Rube Goldberg, now cascades over his ears and down his neck with Joanie Phoanie abandon, and the great wave atop his head looks as if it had been locked in place with Living Curl. In a certain light, there even seems to be a new tint of gold among the silver threads-though only his hairdresser knows for sure...
...merit of Manchester's account lies not so much in the new details he supplies as in the methodical way in which he reconstructs events. His own exhaustive investigation led him to conclude that the same bullet which passed through President Kennedy's neck also struck Connally-thus making Lee Harvey Oswald the sole assassin. He also narrates a harrowing little episode involving Caroline Kennedy. Fearing that an attempt might be made on the lives of the Kennedy family, a Secret Service agent named Tom Wells picked up Caroline from some friends and started driving her away...
Married. Paul Hornung, 31, pro football's "Golden Boy" since 1956, now contemplating retirement from the champion Green Bay Packers because of a chronic pinched nerve in his neck; and Pat Roeder, 29, aspiring actress; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills...
...reconstructed windpipe would not let food into his lungs, they built an artificial valve just below the base of his tongue (see diagram) by cutting into his throat and turning two flaps of skin inward. Lopata had been breathing for a month through a hole lower down in his neck. The surgeons fitted this hole with a tube through which he could breathe, and made another opening above it in preparation for the next phase...
Thigh Flaps. After two months of healing came the crucial second stage. Where almost three inches of windpipe (trachea) was missing above the neck opening, Dr. Montgomery constructed a new windpipe from flaps of skin obtained from vertical cuts down the neck. To cover the gaps left by removal of these flaps, he took still other strips from Lopata's thighs. Into the windpipe opening went a valved silver tube...