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...been done by a combination of error and omission. A nation mesmerized by the pictures from Attica of a mass of exotically clad inmates, mainly black, holding hostages, All of whom were white, had generally accepted the initial report that the hostages who died had all had their throats slit. Some of the early reports also stated that several of the white dead had had their genitals severed and had suffered other forms of extreme physical abuse...
...prisoners (four convicts were later found dead of stab wounds, apparently inflicted by other inmates in factional fighting). Then, in the confusion of the aftermath, Oswald and Dunbar made a perhaps understandable but nonetheless inexcusable mistake. They announced that the hostages had all died by having their throats slit. Dunbar added that two hostages had been killed before the attack, and that one hostage had been found emasculated, his testicles stuffed in his mouth...
Naturally there were oodles of Kennedys. Eunice Kennedy Shriver looked ladylike in cerise taffeta by Cardin. Joan Kennedy, the wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, swirled by in lavender crepe slit to the tops of her thighs. But sitting two rows in front of Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy was an unlikely figure: an Australian girl in T shirt, blue jeans and bare feet. Having come to stare, she had been given a ticket by an unknown man. "Are you staying?" asked a bystander. "My God, yes!" she gasped, then padded dazedly to her choice seat...
Installation of the pump was intricate business. Shanks, who was near death, was wheeled into the operating room at 7:15 p.m. Doctors opened his chest and slit the descending aorta, the downward trunk of the main artery leading from the heart. They then sewed the booster directly into the aorta, led the air hose out through the chest and connected it to the exterior tank. The procedure took five hours, but it was not until 5 a.m. that Shanks left the operating room; Kantrowitz kept him there until he was certain that the booster was doing...
...Donald Effler, tall, athletic and at 55 one of the country's leading heart surgeons, strode into the operating room. Taking his place among his subordinates, he slit open the pericardium and examined the heart. Another surgeon, meanwhile, opened the patient's thigh and removed a foot-long section of the saphenous vein, one of four major veins that carry blood from the lower limbs to the heart. Effler began rapping out commands like a drill sergeant, initiating the procedure to shut down the patient's heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine...