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...many patients as possible but to get them back to work. For some, this would be difficult if they had the usual plastic tubes permanently implanted in their arms, with the ends exposed for hooking up to the machine. Avram uses instead a technique of joining an artery and vein inside the forearm, which causes the veins to enlarge. For each treatment, one needle is inserted near the site of this internal shunt to withdraw blood, and another higher up to return it. Thanks to this refinement, two Brooklyn patients are working as longshoremen, with little added risk of infection...
...diagram), said Fournier, entered the top of Williams' skull, bounced off a bone near the pituitary gland and stopped in the temporal lobe of the brain. Another (No. 2) entered below the left eye and came to rest between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. One centimeter's deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof...
...Many Brave Hearts are Asleep in the Deep" bottom of the range are most likely the direct consequences of youth and the luck of the draw, since the club depends on an uncertain pool of transient talent. As for baritones, director Elliot Forbes seems to have struck a rich vein since the section contains at least three men capable of pleasing solo presentations. The had on the whole a good sound, but the second tenors (an imperious breed of specialists as difficult to find as second fiddles) were not a match for the firsts in quality. The result...
...Course. Addressing businessmen, civic leaders and publishers at a State Department briefing the next night, Johnson continued in the same vein. "Let no single American mistake the enemy's major offensive now!" he cried. "That offensive is aimed squarely at the citizens of America. It is an assault to crack America's will. It is designed to trouble and worry and confuse others." But, he said, his jaw set, "We have set our course. We will pursue it just as long as aggression threatens it. And make no mistake about it -America will prevail...
...escapes with her smooth skin, at least, entirely intact. When one tormentor turned out to be a German army officer, the issue was banned in West Germany. Two issues later, Evergreen gave equal time, as it were, and made Phoebe's torturer a rabbi. Having mined that vein, Evergreen temporarily dropped Phoebe after one last mass orgy of sadism in which all her enemies ganged...