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...history of what one House master calls "the only thing that makes the Harvard undergraduate experience bearable" was largely missed. Instead of dressing up the Houses for a grand, festive occasion, the College sent in teams of building experts from as far away as St. Louis armed with scientific x-ray, ultra-sonic and infra-red machines to examine the structure and mechanical workings of the Houses. The reason: The anniversary was more than a milestone for a unique system of college living. It also signaled a half-century of age, which translates into wear, tear and a problem requiring...
...administrators hope the situation will improve. Pressed for funds at present, the House system expects to gain $12 million earmarked for it in the $250 million Harvard Campaign fund drive, which will end in 1984. And that's where the x-ray machines and experts from St. Louis come...
...special laboratory for a delicate experimental procedure. A long, thin plastic tube was inserted into an artery in his leg and gently pushed through the blood vessels all the way up into the aorta to the coronary arteries. A radiopaque substance was injected into the coronary vessels, and X-ray pictures were taken, revealing a blood clot. Doctors infused an anticlotting drug through the tube. Within an hour, the clot had dissolved, blood flow was reestablished, and Clendenen was spared extensive heart damage...
...that is to detect the disease before it has grown desperate. Today physicians are refining their diagnostic techniques at a remarkable pace. A decade ago, they checked for heart disease by taking a patient's history, doing a physical examination and ordering chest X rays, electrocardiograms and angiograms. X-ray films and EKGs give general information about the heart's structure and electrical activity, respectively. Angiograms, special X-ray pictures made by injecting a radiopaque substance through a thin tube inserted into the heart or coronary arteries, provide more accurate information about constrictions in the coronary arteries...
...square in front of the village church, and from there the more seriously wounded-as many as 15 to 20 a day-are taken for emergency treatment to the town's civilian hospital. The rate of casualties is so high that the army has provided a brand-new X-ray unit and blood bank, and three army doctors rotate on duty...