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...Fatal Day. On April 3-the day before King was murdered-Gait registered at Memphis' Rebel Motel, and his Mustang was seen parked near Room 34. Clerks said that Gait made no telephone calls through their switchboard, but the lights in the room stayed on all night. Next day John Willard-an alias used by Gait-rented Room 5 in the sleazy rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot...
Long, Light Sleep. At London's Charing Cross Hospital, a team led by Dr. Peter Nixon relies on sleep to ease the coronary occlusion victim through the first dangerous days. Their reasoning: pain and fear may be important factors in throwing a weakened, damaged heart into fatal arrest. They give their patients two sedative drugs, promethazine and pethidine (a synthetic equivalent of morphine), to keep them in a light sleep for one to seven days; the average has been 2½ days. Nurses wake the patient three times a day for hygiene, to take liquid food...
...Ashfield reasons that victims of severe heart attacks not only feel and appear breathless-they are actually oxygen-starved because neither heart nor lungs are working efficiently. For his tests he has chosen only patients who have had severe, potentially fatal heart attacks. He puts them in the chamber for a minimum of four days (one man stayed in for ten days). The patient breathes pure oxygen under pressure for two hours; then the lid is opened, and he breathes ordinary air for one hour. This cycle is repeated around the clock. Of Ashfield's first 40 patients, only...
...conspicuous a car being sought by police would be almost as bold a move as the shooting itself. Adding to the confusion was a new report that there had been two white Mustangs parked near the rooming house on Memphis' South Main Street, the origin of the single fatal bullet...
...much hope of stopping them from coming north," he says. "The chances are that they'll reach Panama in a few years, and then come on to the U.S." McGregor believes that the long, cold winters of the U.S. snow belt would prove fatal to the Africans but that they will probably survive and thrive in California and most of the Southeast. Nonetheless, McGregor remains philosophical. The Africans are mean, and "they do sting like hornets, " he says. "But after all, we've learned to live with hornets, haven...