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...after a family quarrel, Jean Starr decided to commit suicide. When she opened her bedroom window in Zanesville, Ohio, she was afraid to jump and compromised by trying to beat out her brains with a hairbrush. This serio comic vein runs throughout her new book, which describes a lifelong love affair with art and with artists, "those people who have been most meaningful...
...Jersey Democrat Richard J. Hughes, planning to seek a second term next fall and facing a hostile, Republican-dominated legislature, tossed off a 31,700-word message in the Great Society vein, designed to make sure "that New Jersey does not become a grim preview of a polluted, congested world of the future." His new programs would add $153 million to the $634 million state budget. Hughes wants a state sales or income tax, which the legislature-under federal court order to reapportion itself and stand for re-election next November-is not about to give...
...Holiday Inn of Cambridge--formerly the Cambridge House Moter Hotel--opened the first year-round outdoor swimming pool in the area. It has also redecorated its St. Clair's Regimental Room in a Yard of Ale vein, and renamed it Captain of the Guard (Rum and Rations...
...Silastic (trade name for medical silicones made by Michigan's Dow Corning Corp.) is 18 in. to 24 in. long, only 1/16-in. thick. It is led under the skin, behind the ear and down the neck to a point where it is spliced into the internal jugular vein. The excess brain fluid is thus dripped into the bloodstream, where the body readily disposes of it. Another Silastic preparation, which looks like a sheet of waxed paper, serves to correct a different type of brain problem: when part of the brain's parchmentlike covering, the dura mater, is damaged...
...operation using a heart-lung machine to remove Kelley's bullet. But no less remarkable than Kelley's survival was the strange and tortuous route that the bullet fragment had followed. Slowed by smashing through his skull, it had landed in the left transverse sinus (a large vein). Then it had ''flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle (upper chamber) of the heart and through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. Thanks to the heart's muscular contractions...