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...still-damp face, praying that it will stop bleeding before he goes and he won't have to look stupid. This is not a man who will need industrial-strength Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion to heal his face after the razor has left it as dry as Utah. This is not a man who will accidentally leave a spot of shaving cream on his carlobe and not notice it until 4 p.m., by which time countless people will have determined that be is an idiot...
Reagan also feels a new sense of urgency about translating these goals into reality. "He's got 3 1/2 more years to make his niche in history," observes Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, an ally and admirer. Others suspect there may be less time than that, perhaps only until the 1986 midterm elections, before the President's clout is vitiated by his lame-duck status. In any case, says one White House aide, "the advice we were given coming into the second term was 'Don't give in or they'll run all over you.' If we're not tough...
...before Vaughn took off, he telephoned Dr. Donald Olsen of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, asking him to join the rescue effort. Olsen was a member of the team that first tested the Jarvik-7 heart, which sustained Barney Clark for 112 days and was, at week's end, still beating in William Schroeder and Murray Haydon at the Humana Hospital in Louisville. Although Olsen was well aware that famed Surgeon William DeVries is the only doctor authorized by the FDA to implant the Jarvik-7, he agreed to fly to Tucson with the device. Said...
...case of first come, first served. Vaughn arrived in Tucson at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 3 1/2 hours ahead of the Utah team. By then, Creighton had been on the heart-lung machine for nearly six hours. Says Vaughn, the choice was clear: "Either we try the artificial heart or we turn off the machine and tell Creighton's mother that her son is dead." After three hours of surgery, the pump was in place...
...Lakers 120, Utah...