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...Accident Happen? Leaving the cottage in his black 1967 Oldsmobile, Kennedy was almost at once brought up against a T-junction. If he had turned left, he would have continued along the paved Chappaquiddick Road leading toward the ferry crossing. But he turned his car right onto a dirt road leading to the wooden bridge and to the beach beyond. In his first statement to police, Kennedy explained that he had simply made a wrong turn, heading to the right. That meant he would have had to overlook a reflector arrow pointing the way to the ferry, and longtime residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon's Day | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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