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The first postoperative bulletins were reassuring: Hospital Spokesman Norman Nager told reporters that "the doctors are looking rather pleased," and in a press conference, Dr. Hickman said: "Mr. Nixon is doing well post-op. He's stable. He's in his room undergoing a normal recovery period. It...
What was unexpected was Nixon's lapse into vascular shock six hours after the operation. Shock generally indicates partial collapse of the circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma...
The doctors estimated that Nixon had lost nearly three pints of blood into the peritoneal space behind his abdominal cavity. He had yielded so much blood that the total volume in his system was too low to maintain adequate circulation-hence the shocklike condition. This results from a decrease in...
Far from trying to create new relationships between the parts of speech or "wringing the neck of rhetoric," Auden seems simply to be trying to restore some of the freshness of his old voice. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he is merely awkward. For example, one of the best things about...
Although many of these cultural reforms seem minor or even whimsical, they nevertheless reflect a serious attempt to restore dignity to a people demoralized by centuries of colonial rule. As one Western ambassador observed: "This was not a nation until he took over, only an amalgam of bickering regions and...