Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher ever since he set a world's high-jump record (6 ft.in 11½) in June 1953, Texas A & M Alumnus Walt Davis, now an employee in the Jefferson County sheriff's department, took time out twice in one week to put on jumping exhibitions in Beaumont and Houston, sailed over a 7-ft. bar each time...
...Boss. It was at 6:33 p.m. on Friday, when many people would normally be starting a weekend trip, that Baylor University's Dean Stanley Olson was called to the phone in the Doctors' Club dining room of Texas Medical Center and got the flash: Beaumont was devastated. All he had known in advance was that the test would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near...
...Close the Door. Since this was only a rehearsal, the convoys jostled regular traffic on the highway to Beaumont, made generally good time. With emergency generators and police floodlights, the first surgical unit in Beaumont was at its operating table with scalpels poised by 11:45. Not until then had Dr. Don Butler allowed a case to leave the sorting center. Confusion, he figured, should not be allowed to spread to the emergency surgeries. As he summed it up: "If they're dying out there and you're not ready to begin operating, you just have to close...
This kind of cold but necessary practicality, common to the battlefield but startling to civilians, shows up in what civil-defense men are calling "triage" (pronounced try-idge).* Explained Dr. Grant Taylor, who directed the Hiroshima damage survey and served as a judge of the Houston-Beaumont test: "You need somebody out front to say 'No-not you, but you.' He'd probably have to carry a revolver on his hip. If a man is 80% burned, he's almost sure to die, no matter what you do for him. If he's 10% burned...
When doctors and civil-defense men pored over reports last week, the Houston-Beaumont test was rated a great and instructive success. Said Baylor's Dean Olson: "It taught our students more about the fundamental philosophy of handling mass casualties than they could have gotten from any other way I know of ... I haven't the faintest idea of how to handle the mass of casualties that could face us in the hydrogen age. But after this test, I know better now how to deal with 250 casualties in six hours. I'm perfectly willing to talk...