Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard also has 6-10 Bob McCabe in the wings, but McLaughlin isn't drooling because of Bob's questionable knees. Speaking of injuries, sophomore Bob Sims returns after a frosh campaign cut short by the surgeon's knife. Sims averaged 13 points in the two games he did play before injury and joins fellow soph Mark Harris and rookie Tom Clarke at forward depth slots...
...went for a master's degree in engineering and I built an automatic transmission, a torque converter, by hand; that was my thesis. [At Ford] I got pretty damn good, just through the passage of time. After 32 years I really became, in my trade, a brilliant brain surgeon and suddenly I find myself dismissed, shocked, and my thoughts were: "I don't want to operate on a guy's feet, because I won't be good at that; I'm a brain surgeon." And that was the auto business to me; I figured that...
...himself, Mario Jascalevich. The Argentine-born physician was accused of killing five hospital patients in 1965 and 1966 by injecting them with lethal doses of curare, a muscle relaxant. His motive, the prosecution speculated, was to discredit other doctors who were challenging his authority as the hospital's chief surgeon...
Performed under local or general anesthesia, the facelift is a delicate operation lasting three to four hours. The surgeon begins by making an uninterrupted incision that starts at the temple, runs down the front of the ear, under the earlobe and behind the ear. Whenever possible, the incision is placed above the hairline so the scar is not readily visible. The skin is then separated away or "undermined" from the underlying muscle and fat and pulled taut to eliminate folds and bags. Finally, the excess skin is trimmed away and the flap of skin is sewed back into place...
...Betty Ford's fee was about $3,200), eyelid surgery runs around $1,500. The cost is generally not covered by medical insurance (though it is tax deductible). Then too some risk is involved; some faces are changed for the worse. Warns Dr. Peter McKinney, a Chicago plastic surgeon: "If you buy a bum toaster, you can take it back. You can't take your face back...