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Such critical accidents are not uncommon. "Trauma"-which in medical parlance includes injuries from all accidents-trails only heart disease and cancer as the nation's leading killer, and claims more than 100,000 American lives a year. However, Barr was more fortunate than most accident victims: he lived in Illinois. Borrowing from the speedy evacuation and emergency medical systems developed by the armed forces in Viet Nam, Illinois has established a unique, statewide trauma-care system to treat accident victims. It is in effect a highly coordinated system of communication and facilities that can mobilize the whole state...
...question was not wholly rhetorical. On March 25, 1919, depressed by a crisis in his own work and by the trauma of the lost war, Lehmbruck killed himself. He was 38. Ever since, the German art world has tended to the view that Lehmbruck's was an exemplary suicide-that, as Critic Reinhold Heller puts it, "his death became a supplication for peace and a sacrificial self-immolation in a world which had declared...
...primary votes he got, has given him a credibility and a respectability he did not have before. He is no longer a regional fringe candidate. As he says: "The other candidates are speaking in different tones of voice about me than they did four years ago." Despite the trauma of the shooting, both Wallace and his wife Cornelia show signs of boredom with provincial life in Montgomery and appear to yearn for a larger stage...
...attack was not fatal, it was a severe trauma-not only to Wallace but also to the nation's democratic process. Again, it raised the old questions of violence in America, of whether political candidates in a democracy dared to risk campaigning face to face with the people (see TIME Essay, page 26). The gunshots at Laurel, Md., also jarred the 1972 campaign into a new perspective. It seemed more certain now that Edward Kennedy would be out of consideration as a convention draft choice to break a deadlock between Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Anxiety about the infection...
Playing brilliantly on the Uniturf overlay surface, Harvard swept five singles and all three doubles matches in straight sets and went on to a convincing 9-0 victory, its third straight since the "aesthetic trauma" at Columbia-Princeton two weekends...