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Physicist Edward Teller traversed the north side of Oregon's Mount Hood with his son Paul, 16, and daughter Susan Wendi, 13. Darkness trapped them near a swollen stream, and the "Father of the H-Bomb" thought the water looked too heavy to be forded at night. When rescuers reached them in the cold predawn, Teller assured them: "We were not lost. We simply got a late start." Said one rescuer ambiguously: "Dr. Teller had a good case of the shakes...
...American National Red Cross made it official: the preferred method of artificial respiration is for the rescuer to put his mouth to the victim's and breathe air into the victim's lungs about twelve times a minute. For children, the Red Cross recommends shallower breaths, a rate of about 20 to the minute...
...privation can easily be captured by hand. Monkeys are more difficult, especially the vervets, who can swim underwater for as long as two minutes. The technique of capture is the same for both-one hand grabs the tail, the other the back of the neck. Otherwise the would-be rescuer is in danger of literally losing his face. The apes are then thrust into cages on the boats and later released on the shore of the lake...
...came the wondrous news. A rescuer at the 13,000-ft. level heard a faint call from the broken end of a compressed-air pipe sticking from the rubble. He yelled back, heard an answering croak: "There are twelve of us in here. Come and get us.'' That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel...
Completely successful by contrast was the mouth-to-mouth method, in which the victim is placed on his back, mouth cleared of all foreign matter, while the rescuer leans down from the side. The rescuer raises the chin of the patient with one hand, forcing open the jaw with his thumb, holds the nose with his other hand. He then blows hard and fast, inflating the victim's lungs, stops when the chest rises so that the lungs can automatically deflate. The cycle is repeated at a rate of 20 inflations per minute until revival. For even more efficient...