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Karen Dehmel, Molly Clark and the relay team of Elaine Sang. Allison Greis, Dehmel and Diana Watts set new Harvard records...
...Yale shave certainly didn't disrupt Harvard junior Allison Greis. "I decided just to go out and do the best I could and not worry about it," said Greis, who swam to two personal bests in the 100-m and 200-m breastroke, and her times qualified her for the Eastern Championships...
...case of Old Milwaukee. A case of Budweiser. A roll of roofing tar paper. Cat Chow. Meow Mix. Grape-Nuts flakes. Bread. A broom. "Some of them out there are brand conscious," Carol said. "Some are quality conscious. Some you just know what to get. One cat at the Allison ranch, for instance, won't eat anything but Purina...
Suzanne Sommers of Clinton, N.J., was diapering her eight-month-old daughter Allison in 1977 when she heard a distinct pop in the child's leg. Ordinarily an infant's bones are so pliable that considerable force is required to break them, but in Allison's case, the tibia, the major bone of the lower leg, had snapped like a pretzel. When doctors examined the child, they found that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition...
Both Labollita and Allison Sommers were candidates for amputation. But today Labollita is lifting 50-lb. dumbbells with his recovered arm, and Allison, now 8, is running and jumping on two healthy legs. The treatment that made their recoveries possible is a delicate, experimental form of surgery called the free vascularized fibular graft. This procedure uses segments of the fibula, the secondary bone in the lower leg, to replace large sections of bone elsewhere in the body that are missing or damaged as a result of accidents or such diseases as osteomyelitis. It also opens up the possibility of saving...