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...releasing smartly, 60 to 80 times a minute. Even in old people, ribs are so flexible that danger of breaking them is negligible. One limitation: the method will not work on a patient who is partly conscious, because he will resist the imposed rhythm. If there is only one rescuer available, says the Kouwenhoven team, massage is more urgent than mouth-to-mouth breathing for resuscitation. If there are two rescuers they should combine the methods. All ambulance drivers in Baltimore's fire department have learned closed-chest massage, and it has become standard practice in the emergency room...
...Louis University The Rev. Dominique Georges Pire, O.P. famed Belgian rescuer of displaced persons, Nobel Peace Prizewinner (1958) L.L.D...
...mean explanations to . the sergeant. Snarling directions, Oakes guided the Davies family, one by one, to safety. "Never mind my name," he snapped. "If you've anything to say about me, I'm P.C. 369 B." Cockney Courage. What a grateful family had to say about its rescuer was glowing enough to provide Oakes-to his immense surprise-with Britain's coveted civilian award, the George Medal. Yet the constable's finest hour, as British Freelance Writer Collier makes clear in his meticulous chronicle of a Saturday night during London's blitz, was only...
Rodka's rescuer is his faithfully unbelieving schoolmarm, Paraskovia Petrovna, who hales Father Dmitry before District Agitprop Director Kuchin and argues with him en route on behalf of edifying atheism. Director Kuchin is fed up with staging anti-God lectures ("Nobody comes but atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes...
...make it N.R. In an open-air speech to undergraduates after the game, Rockefeller told a punny story about six men in a boat. When the boat capsized, another small boat came to the rescue, but lacked room to take all six aboard. "Can you float alone?" a rescuer called to a man still in the water. "Yes," he yelled, "but why should you raise a question of business at this time?" Added Rockefeller: "This is my feeling about politics-at this time...