Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Larry Rink, of Centreville, Mich., who quit high school to work in a paper mill, was only 20 when his right leg had to be amputated because of bone cancer. In less than a year, the disease recurred with its usual malignancy. To Dr. Ray Houghton, an osteopathic physician of White Pigeon, it seemed that Rink's only chance lay in cross-transplants of cancer tissues with other patients-a bold technique under investigation at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo (TIME, March...
Most U.S. oral surgeons have operated from outside the mouth, through the neck, usually cutting through the jaw bone to shorten or lengthen jaws. The procedure is likely to leave a scar and carries the risk of damaging a nerve, thus causing facial paralysis, and it does not permit the free repositioning of parts of the jaw. Only occasionally have U.S. surgeons operated entirely inside the mouth to move the jaw, something Dr. Obwegeser has made a standard practice. His techniques for moving and repositioning entire segments of bone, with teeth affixed, speedily correct severe defects U.S. surgeons have despaired...
...lower jaw is too short, Dr. Obwegeser cuts halfway through its rearward, ascending segment, the ramus, on the inner side. On the cheek side, he cuts halfway through the bottom part of the jawbone. Then he divides the bone lengthwise, leaving two pieces with half-thickness ends. He slides these pieces apart, lengthening the jawbone but leaving a space where the lower cut was made. Where nonalignment is too great to be corrected by an operation on the lower jaw alone, Dr. Obwegeser may move all or part of the upper jaw. With remarkable versatility, he can even move...
...Liberal Party," decided in its elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked the Liberal witch at her Cumberland cottage, called "Witchwood": "Poor Mr. Wilson. I didn't even cast a spell...
...scrawny (160 Ibs.), Ryun runs with about as much style as a drunken sailor -head lolling, shoulders rotating. His pulse rate (about 70) is abnormally high for a miler, his breathing rate is unusually slow, and he is prone to dizzy spells caused by a malformed bone structure in his inner...