Word: roomfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old boy who was rolled into the operating room of St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley, Ill. had no history of heart trouble, so Surgeon Russell Simonetta confidently ordered an anesthetic : cyclopropane, after an intravenous injection of thiopental sodium. Within two hours, Dr. Simonetta, assisted by Dr. Henry Jacobs, had completed his surgery: cleaning and setting an elbow fractured when the patient was pinned under a tractor. Then, as he was about to be wheeled out, the boy's heart stopped...
While Surgeon Simonetta massaged the heart, Jacobs ripped the cord from an electric fan in the operating room, ordered a silver-plated spoon from a room where the nurses took their coffee breaks. "I bared the wires," he said, "and wrapped one around the spoon and placed it against the heart. I wrapped the other around a retractor and placed it against the shoulder. A third fellow plugged the wire in.'' After four jolts of current, the fluttering heart was calm; 15 minutes after its own last beat, normal pumping was resumed...
...rear. It has less luggage space-only 15.6 cu. ft. in the Corvair v. 24.5 cu. ft. for the Falcon and 24.9 cu. ft. for the Valiant. (But the Corvair has an optional folding rear seat, for $32.50 extra, that provides another 13.3 cu. ft. of luggage room in the back.) Many engineers insist that a rear engine is not practical on the basis of present knowledge for cars of more than 2,800 Ibs. (Corvair's weight: 2,375 Ibs.). G.M.'s forthcoming Buick and Oldsmobile compacts, which will be bigger than the Corvair, will have front...
...Corvair). When the Korean war broke out, the Army grabbed the plan for its T-41 tank, and Cole was made boss of Cadillac's huge plant in Cleveland. There his idea of building a rear-engine small car took shape. Every night in his room at the Lake Shore Hotel, he bent over a drafting board, littered the floor with sketches. The idea seemed to have no chance, since big Cadillac had no plans to produce a small car. But bigger G.M. had plans for Ed Cole...
Again in disgrace, he was sent back to Cairo and moped around headquarters. His depression was deepened by Atabrine taken to combat malaria. One gloomy afternoon in his hotel room he stabbed himself twice in the throat with a hunting knife. His life was saved by a British colonel next door, who said afterward: "When I hear a feller lock a door, I don't think anything about it, and if I hear a feller fall down, that's his affair, but when I hear a feller lock his door and then fall down-it's time...