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...open sea and churning it into energy. As reports from the planes came in, Puerto Rico braced itself. So did the Bahamas and Florida. But like many an adventuress, Flora had an eye for demagogues, finally curved toward the western arm of Hispaniola. Broadcasting to Haiti, the poverty-stricken Negro nation ruled by Dictator Francois Duvalier, U.S. weathermen issued urgent warnings: "This is a dangerous hurricane ... all precautions should be taken...
...contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times: "You are not going to reverse all these trends immediately. If you did it would be rather disastrous...
...usual, the Los Angeles Dodgers were ahead and fighting for their lives. But this year there were few signs of the panic-stricken collapse that cost them the pennant in 1962. Since Labor Day, the Dodgers have been playing .715 baseball. The excitement came from the St. Louis Cardinals, who last won a pennant in 1946, and in recent years have been a pale shadow of the great Gashouse Gang of the '30s. The experts picked Manager Johnny Keane's Cards for fifth place. But now, ready for a fateful three-game series with the Dodgers this week...
Plain Wood Coffins. Under such skillful manipulation, how many grief-stricken families have the maverick fortitude to select a plain wood coffin and demand that the undertaker dispense with embalming? The answer for a growing number of them is the memorial or funeral society, which contracts with undertakers to provide members with dignified burials costing about $150. Both Authors Harmer and Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations...
Expanding Air. Dr. Kruse could see at once what the trouble was. The stricken diver was suffering from air embolism,* in which compressed air in the lungs expands rapidly, forces its way into pulmonary veins leading to the heart, and travels through the arteries to the brain, where it cuts off part of the circulation and causes unconsciousness and paralysis. Dr. Kruse told the diving crew to carry the patient to an examining room. Inexperienced at the job, they let the unconscious man's head sag forward until his chin touched his chest. At the same time, they were...