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Hand in the Trap. Once upon a wedding night, a bride hid from her husband. She hid in a wooden chest that was shaped like a coffin-and then, to her horror, found that she could not lift the lid. She called and called, but no one could hear her. They looked and looked, but no one could find her. Twenty years later, they found what was left of her: a skeleton in tulle...
Roger was turned upside down to drain the dirty river water out of him, and Dr. Kvittingen began artificial respiration with a tube down his windpipe, but the boy was still in desperate plight. He had no detectable pulse, and all the way to the hospital his chest was rhythmically compressed to force blood in and out of the heart. At Central Hospital a special, electrode needle was pushed right through the chest wall into the heart, and it failed to detect any beat. External pressure was continued. A blood transfusion was started. Not until 2½ hours after...
...recent months 62-year-old King Saud of Saudi Arabia has suffered a succession of intestinal, stomach, chest, circulatory and heart ailments. Often they seem to be aggravated by the swirling political events in his desert capital of Riyadh. After the Yemen rebellion last fall threatened the stability of his throne, Saud's health was so upset that he turned the government over to his able brother, Prince Feisal, and flew to Switzerland for treatment...
...Ibis, a rare bird, which has long been the symbol of all that we stand for. Bennett has been in our possession since our founding in 1876, and we can think of nothing more fitting than that he should take his proper place on the lid of your hope chest. Do come and see us next time you are in Cambridge...
Urban has developed a surgical technique that goes farther than the conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are embedded. Taken out are layers of skin, muscle and bone, and this creates a window near the center of the chest...