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...surgical team led by Surgeon Jesse Meredith was waiting for Pennell when he arrived, 90 minutes after the accident. They scrubbed clean both the stump and the hand, set the severed bones (ulna and radius) with pins, and sutured the arteries back together. Then they unclamped the arteries of the arm and let blood pour out through the hand veins for four minutes to make sure the vessels were clean. That done, they clamped off the artery flow and rejoined the veins. Then, starting from the center, they worked to the outside reconnecting nerves and tendons. Finally, they sewed...
...ambitious and he is calculating; yet he is not cold--and that saves him. His ambition is sanguine, runs in a torrent, and the calculation is hardly more than the rock or the stump which the torrent strikes for a second, yet which suffices to direct its course. It is not so much that he calculates how he is to make his career a success--how, frankly, he is to boom--but that he has a queer, shrewd power of introspection, which tells him his gifts and character are such as will make him boom...
...also plenty of political ploy in his reaction. His junta is expected to call presidential elections in another six to nine months, and Barrientos is running hard for the top job. Widely popular within the military and among the peasants, he spends almost as much time on the stump as he does behind his desk. Nothing suits him so much as jumping behind the controls of an air force DC-3 and flying off to some remote pocket of the Andean country to shake hands and slap backs...
...most of all by work. He worked in the White House and he worked at the ranch. On the Hill and astride the stump. In his limousine (with four separate communication setups) and aboard the jet (with $2,000,000 in electronic gear). By letter, wire, scrambler and hot line. In the bath and in the bedroom, at every meal and over every drink...
...Stump the Snoopers. Star witness was Insurance Man Don Reynolds, 48, an old business buddy of Baker's. He testified that in 1959 Baker arranged an insurance kickback from Philadephia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, 71, former Democratic National Committee treasurer and Ambassador to Ireland under John F. Kennedy, who was then angling for the contract to build Washington's $20 million municipal stadium. McCloskey, said Reynolds, made the payoff by handing over $35,000 more than he had to on the premium on a performance bond for stadium construction...