Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Able Seaman Liang Chin-kai 23, was working on the deck of a tugboat in Canton harbor when he got involved in a classic accident that is dreaded by all sailors. His leg was tangled in a towing cable that suddenly snapped tight, all but amputating his right foot at the ankle joint. At Chung Shan Medical College Hospital No. 1 two hours later, Doctors Huang Cheng-ta and Li Pingheng, both 36, were faced with an extraordinary operation: the restoration of a foot attached to Liang's leg only by shreds of muscle, tendon and nerve...
Ready for Home. The elaborate precautions were understandable. The lump below Nguyen Van Chin's twelfth rib was a Viet Cong grenade, capable of spraying inch-long wire chunks in every direction at about 4,800 ft. per second. The problem began one night last week when Chin felt the call of nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades...
...Chin was rushed to Saigon. There, doctors discovered no broken bones, and their patient said he wanted to go home. But he could hardly be turned loose. U.S. medical authorities were called on, and General Humphreys, a chest surgeon and chief medical man at the U.S. Agency for International Development mission, volunteered to operate. Colonel Daniel Campbell, also a chest surgeon, and Dr. Tony Brown, a British anesthesiologist attached to AID, offered to assist...
...ever so carefully down to and around the grenade. Then the pincers. Slowly the surgeon got a grip; tenderly he lifted the grenade and moved it toward a sand-filled container. Less than four minutes after he start ed, Dr. Humphreys sighed: "It's in the box." Mr. Chin...
...grenade was hustled to the outskirts of Saigon, where demolition experts announced before they destroyed it that it was indeed a live one. Mr. Chin was, too, and sleeping comfortably, reported Surgeon Humphreys. Had this sort of thing ever been tackled by medical science before? "Are you kidding?" asked the still shaken doctor...