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Elizabeth was more fortunate than most victims of such accidents. An off-duty ambulance volunteer, Vincent Cascio, who happened to be near by, ran over and used a belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Summoned by a radio cab, Police Sergeant Fred Muehling alertly retrieved the leg. Ambulance attendants carefully surrounded the severed limb with cold packs before rushing it and the girl to Smithtown General Hospital...
...though my hand was in a vise," he recalls. When he pulled his hand back, he brought with it a 4½-ft. diamondback rattlesnake, its fangs buried near his left thumb. He managed to shake off the snake and ran screaming to a neighbor, who applied a tourniquet that saved Morantz from almost certain death. Fire department paramedics chopped off the snake's head with a shovel, and discovered that the rattles had been removed so that the snake could attack without warning...
Laird Guttersen, 52, an ebullient, bigboned retired Air Force colonel, remembers the day he "broke" as if it were yesterday. He had already watched his hands turn black "like German sausage" from tourniquet-tight binding; then ropes around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided...
Middle-aged couples, recently divorced, might better bring a tourniquet than a handkerchief to Past Tense. This is a drama that is its own imperative. The most congenial of mates will take it home, not because they necessarily want to, but because they have...
...annual rate of less than 5%-nowhere near enough to meet the credit demands of an inflationary econ, omy. Now there are some signs I that the board, realizing the shaky state of business, is becoming a trifle more generous; at minimum, it has stopped twisting the money tourniquet ever tighter. That small bit of good news was enough to touch off a Friday stock market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 22 points...