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After a near-fatal illness that cost $21,911.32 and 160 days in three hospitals, Eric Hodgins might pardonably have tried to forget it. Instead, he set out to write off his losses. The result, Episode - Report on the Accident Inside My Skull (Atheneum; $5), is Journalist Hodgins' wry, spry, keenly observed sto ry of a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and how it has affected his life for the past four years...
...running movements. Their corpses are well nourished and show no signs of epidemic disease. But their internal organs are fat-clogged, degenerated and damaged by hemorrhages. Overcrowding seems somehow to upset the rabbits' pituitary and adrenal glands, causing their abnormal secretions to trigger a long chain of fatal troubles...
...Fatal Flaws...
Secondly, Clay has two fatal defensive flaws: he fights with fists held far too low to provide adequate protection for his pretty face. Henry Cooper, lacklustre British champion, took advantage of this defect last summer and nearly spoiled Clay's perfect record. Cassius recovered from the Cooper blow and went on to win, but no one recovers from a Liston left hook...
...five-year study of the R.C.A.F.'s fatal accidents, said Dr. Manning, postmortem examination of the heart was possible in 24 cases, and eight pilots were found to have had coronary artery disease severe enough to be considered a probable cause of the accident. More significantly, said Dr. Manning, four of these eight had previously shown ECG abnormalities, even though the trouble had not been severe enough to ground them immediately...