Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monkey. Today, at least twoscore Americans are going about their business kept alive and active by kidneys transplanted from other people. Some of the donors were living at the time of the operation, some were dead; some were close kin, some unrelated. In Denver, Royal Jones, 12, went blind for a while because of kidney disease but is now well enough to play ball, thanks to a transplant last November from his mother. Another Denver patient, Jerry Will Ruth, 24, got a kidney from Brother Billy, 22; he pumps gas and greases cars, declares, "I feel as good...
True, there was a serpent in her paradise. She knew that in a year her tumor would return, that one day suddenly she would be blind, that a few minutes later she would be dead. But death too can be beautiful, especially in Deluxe Color. Just as Susan's sight begins to fade, her husband is called out to deliver a baby. Nobly she resolves that birth is more important than death, that his place is with the baby and not with her. She sends him off and, smiling ever so sweetly, dies alone-well, not entirely alone...
...John the Bug; Mr. Gribs and The Gap, Kid Blast and The Sidge; The Sheik and The Cat; Benny the Bum, Teddy the Bum and Jerry the Lug; Big Sam, Fat Dom and Fat Freddie; Good Looking Al, Big Nose Nick, Cockeye Nick and Cockeye Phil; Pip the Blind and Eyeglasses. And three fellows named Tea Bags, Four Cents and Blah Blah...
Playing with Magic. In the first quarter, a vicious, blind-side tackle sent Staubach to the bench with a stretched nerve in his left shoulder. Five minutes later, as if nothing had happened, he was ramming through the center of the S.M.U. line for a touchdown. Southern Methodist's speedy backs scored twice before the half. But Staubach kept the Middies ahead-rolling out to his right to set up a touchdown, then rolling out to his left for the two-point conversion. By the half, 31 points were on the scoreboard: Navy 18, S.M.U...
Graduation for Staubach is still a year and a half away, and he has a four-year Navy hitch to serve-probably as a supply officer (he is color-blind and tends toward airsickness). But what then? The pros frown on roll-out passing ("We've got too much money invested in our quarterbacks to take any chances on their getting killed"), but the New York Giant's Jim Lee Howell says, "We can always teach a boy to go straight back; we just can't give him an arm or a brain." Staubach has both...