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...more successful bigots than Gerald L.K. Smith, but few have been so durable. During four decades as a rabble-rouser, he has made a career and a fortune out of preaching that only the far right is right - and that just about everything else is wrong. A onetime tub thumper for Huey Long, Smith says that the U.S. was meant to be "a white, Christian country," claimed in 1952 that Eisenhower was Jewish, and has called Hubert Humphrey "a creature of Jewish subsidy." Though his appeal today is only to a lunatic fringe, he still makes a handsome living from...
Defense Attorney J. B. Stoner, a longtime vendor of racial and religious hate who had been a leading tub-thumper in the July 15 rally, produced witnesses who called Knight a liar and swore that Strange had spent a peaceful evening drinking beer at the Rozier house. Prosecutor Williams was quietly eloquent in his summation, "We need men," he told the jury, "who are not afraid to stand up and say, based on the testimony, we believe this man is guilty and are not afraid to say so." The jurors started off eight-to-four for acquittal on a first...
Mouth to Mouth. The Heart-Lung Resuscitator, or HLR, which doctors have dubbed "the Thumper," works on the twin principles that a person whose heart stops must have both his breathing and his circulation restored. Most older methods of resuscitation, such as medieval flagellation or jackknifing the victim over a fence, have been barbarous and useless. Others have been of limited value because they concentrated on only one phase of the problem: breathing. Even the best of these methods, mouth-to-mouth breathing, went out of fashion in the Victorian era because it seemed not quite nice, and it took...
Squeeze the Heart. But doctors still wanted something more automatic and reliable. Working with engineers of Massachusetts' Brunswick Manufacturing Co., they devised the Thumper, which is basically a small (1½ in. by 3 in.) pneumatic plunger strapped to the chest (see cut). Powered entirely by compressed oxygen (small tanks in portable units, bigger ones in hospitals), the HLR supplies a puff of oxygen twelve times a minute through a face mask, while the plunger, which replaces the rescuer's hands, bounces up and down on the victim's breastbone 60 times a minute. On the downstroke...
Ideally, the victim of sudden heart arrest should get immediate mouth-to-mouth breathing by one rescuer and simultaneous chest massage by another, until the Thumper arrives, to do both jobs precisely and tirelessly all the way to a hospital. Within hospitals themselves, HLRs are expected to be useful in emergency rooms and intensive-care units, where seriously ill patients are especially subject to heart stoppage...