Word: normality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...people joke about surgeons leaving assorted instruments in their patients. Not John Everard, 33, a worker in an airplane factory in Glendale, Calif. Shortly after Everard had undergone a gallbladder operation, he began to feel pains in his lower right abdomen. His physician assured him that his discomfort was normal and would soon disappear. It persisted; more than two years later, an X ray revealed why: Everard's surgeon had failed to remove a hemostat, or surgical clamp, which had lodged in his patient's abdominal cavity. The facts speak for themselves, argued Everard's attorney. They...
...more frightening is the case of Louisa Alvaro, 26. A healthy mother of two, she began to hemorrhage during delivery of normal twins at a New York City hospital. Fifteen hours later she was dead. Doctors and hospital officials contended that her death was the result of a pre-existing liver condition and that everything had been done to save her. Her husband's attorney proved otherwise. Relying on expert testimony that tests were needed to determine the compatibility of Mrs. Alvaro's blood with blood administered during a transfusion, he was able to show that no tests...
...ventriloquist. Otherwise she conveys all the insouciance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fabled Daisy Buchanan. Beautiful, rich, intelligent and flippant, Candice can well afford drawing-room sallies and wry self-deprecation. Recalling growing up as Edgar Bergen's daughter, she says: "One may not turn out exactly normal when you have two wooden dummies for brothers, each with his own room." Or her days with the jet set: "That was a valuable exposure to the ultimate in boredom." Or her screen performances: "I'm great at the physical stuff: running, riding, jumping. Acting-that's another...
...WHITE has a rather strange mind. To a normal eight-year-old, he's just an exceptionally good author. But to someone older, who has never experienced the joy of Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little, he is, as a friend of mine said recently, "very weird." True, spiders don't usually weave slogans such as "Some Pig" into their webs to save pigs from being slaughtered; and human parents don't usually give birth to a son who looks exactly like a mouse. But none of that matters, because they're all very real, endearing characters with real problems...
...projected deficit of $2 million for 1970-71 led to the announcement in early September of "an immediate restriction on all employment of new or replacement personnel which requires the expense of general funds." Last week Yale announced that $5.25 millions would be cut from the normal rate of increase of its budget for fiscal 1971-72, and over three years a 20 per cent reduction from previously projected budgets is envisaged. Princeton had a deficit last year of almost a million dollars and has projected a deficit of $2.4 million in the current year. In a sense this Faculty...