Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hours after the accident, the fractured bone was reset and pinned without complications and the patient was reported "alert and joking with his doctors." Dirksen is expected to stay in the hospital for two weeks, after which he will be on crutches for two months or so. Meanwhile, with no major legislation scheduled for immediate Senate action, the mishap had one welcome effect. His hospital stay, as Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield noted, will give the hard-driving Republican a "well-earned rest...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Illya is mistaken for the son of Peter O'Toole in "The Arabian Affair"-perhaps the funniest bone U.N.C.L.E. has tickled this season. Repeat...
...chances were that neither Keane nor Houk could revive these Yankees. Old age had destroyed their skills. Slugger Mickey Mantle, at 34 and in his 16th season, was playing with his shaky legs encased in tape; his right shoulder was still sore after an operation for a bone chip, and he had yet to hit his first home run. Roger Maris, 31, the second half of the M. & M. twins who tore the league apart a few years ago, sat out 116 games last year because of injuries. He seems healthy enough now, but his batting average is a minuscule...
...contrast with the recent practice of amputating above the knee, the Burgess team operated as far below the joint as possible, while still avoiding infected bone. After dressing the sutured stump to stanch bleeding, the surgeons used an elastic bandage soaked with plaster of paris to mold a cast around the stump and up Myers' thigh. Into the cast they built an aluminum socket, ready for insertion of a temporary aluminum column of adjustable length...
Died. Harry T. Griffith, 63, Pennsylvania sales engineer who suffered from bone cancer and, in hopes of stimulating disease-stopping antibodies, took part in a dramatic double-transplant operation (TIME, March 11) in which he traded tumorous tissue with a Tucson insur ance salesman afflicted with the same malignancy; of bone cancer with complications; in Philadelphia...