Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words may be true as far as they go, but they hardly go far enough. No one activity has ever been able to contain the Beaver's passion; it burns in everything he says and does. "I am the victim of the Furies. On the rock-bound coast of New Brunswick," he said, recalling his Canadian youth, "the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave smashing viciously against the rock. It is called The Rage. That's me." On reaching 70, a nice round retirement number, he thundered: "I'll not give...
...gleaming on the deeper velvet blue of its body, hesitated at the coral's edge; half a dozen gaudy parrot fish cruised along the ocean bottom, crunching and chittering as they fed. Cautiously, Roberts extended his gun toward the jewel fish, then quickly pulled the plunger, sucking his victim through the transparent barrel and down into the holding chamber below...
...student had surfaced rapidly from the bottom of a 14-ft. training tank in Seattle, and despite his training, he had evidently held his breath all the way up. Within seconds, he was half unconscious, and his left side was paralyzed. The instructor and his diving comrades rushed the victim to General Practitioner Charles A. Kruse, who had two important qualifications for handling the case: his of fice was near by, and he is an enthusiastic skindiver himself...
Standard treatment for air embolism is to put the victim into a recompression chamber, but Dr. Kruse did not know where the nearest chamber was. Fortunately, the twitch in the head-dropped position gave him an idea. By chance, the examining table had a tilting mechanism. The doctor propped up the diver's head until his chin rested on his chest-the same position that had produced the hopeful twitch. Then he spun the control wheel until the head end of the table had dropped about 15 degrees. As fast as he could, he spun the wheel again until...
...Atkinson and Kruse do not recommend the tilting-table treatment as a substitute for recompression. But as a first-aid measure until the embolism victim can be hauled to a pressure chamber, which may be miles away, they think tilting may prevent many cases of permanent brain damage...