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...Fisher had kept his defibrillator sterilized, ready for just such an emergency. It was rushed to the operating room, another incision was made in the patient's chest, and the machine's two electrodes were placed on opposite sides of her heart. A doctor pressed a button and sent a 110-volt, 1½-ampere current shooting through the heart for just half a second. Shocked, the fluttering heart muscles jerked to a sudden stop. Then, to the vast relief of the doctors, the muscles began pulsing in a steady, even rhythm. Nurse Timke would live...
...Button, the men's world and Olympic figure skating champion, is favored to retain his title...
With the opening of the sixth Winter Olympic Games just a week off, 125 of the record 1.187 competitors have checked into Oslo, but Dick Button is still missing. The only member of the U.S. team absent, he is expected to arrive from Vienna Saturday...
...topic of the thesis, "The Attitude of European Socialist Parties Toward the Schumann Plan," gave Button the opportunity to combine first-hand research with his skating...
Maass said that Button started his thesis last summer and put the finishing touches on it while travelling through France, the Benelux countries, England, Italy, and Germany...