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With failure following failure the doctors have now turned to toxicological testing. For that they use a gas chromatograph, which heats a specimen until it vaporizes. When a bright light is shone through the vapor and passed through a prism, it yields a distinctive spectrum. Yet further tests will be run with an atomic spectrometer, which searches for deadly heavy metals like mercury and lead. A shotgun approach like this, says Sencer, should disclose whether "there are chemicals you would not expect to find in human tissue." If such chemicals can be found, the detectives may have their solution...
...considered a nono. She had an unbridled tongue and an addiction to nocturnal phone calls that converted her into a national celebrity. When she died last week, abandoned and alone, Martha Mitchell strangely seemed more of a figure from the distant past than one on whom the spotlights shone a scant two years...
...freestyle, Paco Canales swam his lifetime best (16:17.8) to come in ninth place. Tiger star Joe Loughran shone in the event as he handily...
Defensively, there was Billy Emper, who made an interception and a couple of touchdown-saving pass deflections. Adjuster George Newhouse also shone, particularly with his lightning blitz on which he blindsided the Dartmouth quarterback twice for losses...
...rained harder and harder, and finally with 7:53 left in the game, the new, mellow, post-graduate, non-Doonesbury Pat McInally shone through...