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...treatment for such attacks involves no prolonged restrictions or use of anticoagulants; most patients are up and around after three weeks of bed rest and quickly return to normal activity. Such people, so the traditional medical argument runs, should thank their stars that the same factors that often produce fatal attacks in others have caused them only temporary indisposition. But last week Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff somberly warned the AHA that the "mild coronary" may have more cause for ap prehension than for gratitude...
Vermont's three electoral votes may not bear a heavy impact on the national election, but a great many congressmen and citizens are looking to the state to see if it is fatal for a public official to take an outspoken position on issues that make him politically vulnerable. The focus is on the re-election campaign of Rep. William H. Meyer, whose championing of the peace issue has left him open for a smear-job along all too familiar lines. Another victory for him this year in conservative Vermont would be the peak in a series of surprises...
...metrologists soon began to worry about the meter bar. It might be lost or destroyed, or its metal might change with time in subtle and unpredictable ways, altering the distance between the lines by a fatal few parts per million. Worst of all, as the years passed and technological requirements became even more devastatingly precise, the bar's accuracy was no longer good enough. A master standard must be at least ten times more accurate than the practical measuring systems that are derived from it, and modern industry began to call for tolerances expressed in millionths of an inch...
...later critics. One of the plays was burned by Goethe, who threw the manuscript into his stove because of its "damnable perversity." In all of Von Kleist's work he saw "a body well planned by nature, tainted with an incurable disease." Whatever the taint was, it was fatal. Von Kleist, whose own letters almost certainly prove that he was a homosexual, had a weakness for death pacts. In 1811, at 34, he made one with a married woman and carried it out near Berlin by shooting first her and then himself...
With one minute left in the half, after blocking a Crimson punt, the Indians scored from Harvard's ten yard line on a short pass thrown by quarterback Ron Schram to end Hugh Harris, Joe Barchelder kicked the fatal extra point...