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...Conformity is basically a psychotic state. That is the frontier that has to be opened. To hell with the astronauts. To hell with the moon. There's a whole sky in your chest that's waiting to be explored...
...said Dr. Daniels, Chang complained of pains in his chest, though Eng still felt well. Chang's doctor ordered the twins to stay indoors. But in their turn-and-turnabout living pattern, it was time for them to move from Chang's house in White Plains, N.C., to Eng's. They made the switch in a buggy in the damp January cold of the North Carolina mountains. Next night, Eng awoke with a feeling of unease and called in one of his sons. Said the boy: "Uncle Chang is dead." Eng replied: "Then I am going also...
...Medicine Chest. On the fringes of the swamp live veteran trappers and guides who can recite the ballad without missing a beat, and who know every legend about the dark mysteryland. The swamp water is perfectly potable and is famed for its long-staying qualities of freshness, but it looks as if it had been pumped from an outhouse. For years, the swamp's vegetation was supposed to be an unequaled medicine chest. The pale blue hepatica, with leaves shaped like the lobes of the liver, was good for any liver disorder. Virginia Bluebell cured chest ailments. The common...
...below the left nipple, the compact machine delivers 2,000 to 2,200 volts in a one-two pulse-first in one direction, then in the other. When a heart-disease patient or an electric-shock victim has a fibrillation attack, says Dr. Jude, first-aid methods (chest massage and mouth-to-mouth breathing) must be used promptly, and kept up until the doctor arrives with the electrical defibrillator. Electric-linemen, who are frequent victims of shock fibrillation, are being trained to use the machine on their buddies without waiting for a doctor...
Dressed in the same clothes, and wearing a bandolier of bullets across his chest, Badr told of his escape to a group of 16 newsmen who huddled on mats in a camel-skin tent at an encampment a few miles inside Yemen near the Saudi Arabian border. While dagger-wielding, shouting followers raised a din outside, Badr cheerfully predicted that he would be back on the throne in a few weeks. He claimed to command 20,000 tribesmen...