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Though Air Force Sergeant Tor Olson, 22, might be called a washout of sorts, he is anything but unhappy about that appellation. In March, the 145-lb. Olson was comatose and near death from liver failure brought on by hepatitis. Today he is not only alive but well, thanks to the first successful flushing, or "total body washout," of a patient's circulatory system. Colonel Gerald Klebanoff of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, attempted the pioneering procedure af-ter Olson had been in a coma for three days and showed no indications of reviving...
...wrote radical poems and skits that read like bad Kipling. At 23, indirectly because of a stormy verse drama he had written, he was offered the post of director and playwright at the theater in Bergen. His first four plays flopped, and as a director he was a washout. Too shy to tell his actors what to do, he sat in the back of the theater tugging at his beard or hurried away from confrontation muffled up in a huge romantic cloak that made him look like Mickey Rooney playing Goethe...
Today's game starts at 3 p.m.; tomorrow's begins at 2 p.m. This week's washout against B.C. has been rescheduled...
Nine months ago, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt looked like a political washout. He had twice led his Social Democratic Party to defeat in national elections, and so severe was his drubbing at the hands of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard last year that Brandt declared bitterly that he would never again campaign for the chancellorship. Privately relieved, the Social Democrats began looking around for a successor...
Down to the Ds. The tryout was a washout. After three days, the Twins offered him-free-to the National League's Houston Colts. The Colts turned him down too. At that, Oliva went to visit a buddy who was playing for the Charlotte, N.C., Hornets-a Twins farm club. The Hornets didn't want him either. Out of charity, the general manager got Tony a berth on the Wytheville, Va., Twins, a Class D team in the Appalachian Rookie League. And all of a sudden Tony started hitting baseballs with his unconnected swing...