Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week in Walter Reed Army Hospital thoughtfully reading the newspapers. The uncheering news: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey had joined Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington in demanding that he resign as Secretary of State. Suddenly, in walked the President of the U.S., three gift books under his arm, and on his face a look of thoughtful concern. From then on, Dulles' week began to look...
...University in 1954, the 6-ft. gin. Pettit has been a star. He has never been lower than fourth in the league scoring race, won it in the 1955-56 season, might have repeated in the past two years had he not been handicapped by a broken hand and arm fracture (he finished second in 1956-57, third last season). Key to Pettit's prowess is a one-handed jump shot that he fires from anywhere within basket range the moment he has a teammate to screen for him. Fast for a big man, he follows his shots...
...April 21) won approval of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council as a standard for all first-aid efforts. Already adopted by the U.S. Army, and with prompt endorsement by the American Red Cross expected, it will probably replace the prone-pressure and back-pressure-arm-lift systems...
...this point, there had been considerable doubt that Ulen would be physically present at the I.A.B. Because of four operations performed on his arm and shoulder since last April, Ulen has been unable to take any active part in coaching duties this year, yielding them to his long-time assistant and Freshmen coach Bill Brooks. Ulen himself voiced last-minute strains of optimism, last night, saying "I'll try to get there if I can." He emphasized that his presence depends almost entirely on his condition Saturday morning. Surely he, the team, and the sell-out crowd would like nothing...
Surprising Fact. So far, all but two of the patients treated have lost most of their pain. The exceptions: one with lung cancer, one with "phantom limb" pain after an arm amputation. Best results have been in cancers of the face and neck. The surgeons leave the electrodes in place so that the patients can go home and lead drug-free, lives, as near normal as their disease will permit. They can return for treatment to destroy a further part of the thalamus if pain recurs...