Word: sodium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, the King was injected with an anesthetic (probably sodium pentothal) by Anesthetist Robert Machray. He was wheeled to the operating room and, if Surgeon Price Thomas followed his customary procedure, laid out three-quarters prone, his left side propped up slightly with pillows...
Died. Robert Walker, 32, boyish cinemactor (Strangers on a Train; See Here, Private Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan...
Audience reaction was immediate and mixed. Booing students quickly organized into a small parade which, however, soon disbanded. A few minutes later, students set off a sodium bomb behind the home of M.I.T.'s President James R. Killion. The majority of the crowd, however, went back to the books...
...nurses have come to call him, seemed to have something wrong with an artery. To get a clearer picture, the doctors decided to inject a dye into the artery. At 1:30 p.m. on March 15, the patient was wheeled into the X-ray room and anesthetized with sodium pentothal. Before Surgeon J. Cuthbert Owens could inject the dye, the patient began to turn blue. His heart had stopped...
...almost six years, the Department of Health had added small amounts of sodium fluoride to the drinking water in Newburgh, N.Y.* (pop. 31,924). To act as "control" for the test, the city of Kingston (pop. 28,869), 32 miles up the Hudson, went without fluorides. In both towns, schoolchildren between the ages of six and twelve were methodically checked for signs of cavities...