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...sergeant standing by the hatch suddenly turned and spoke. His men clattered to their feet. Trailing from the back of each man's pack was a 15-foot "static cord," with a buckle on the free end. Each man reached down, seized the buckle, snapped it to the overhead cable. They crowded into line, right hand on the shoulder of the man in front, shuffled toward the hatch. The sergeant tensed his body, flexed his knees down and out, dived. His static cord whipped straight behind him, tightened, yanked the canvas cover from his 'chute...
Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...
Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
...theory: A person may harbor the poliomyelitis virus in his spinal cord without feeling more than a headache, stiff neck, sick stomach. If he lies down and takes care of himself, the disease may pass off without trouble. But if he plays ball, goes swimming or hiking, the virus may spread throughout huge numbers of spinalcord cells, causing paralysis...
...right words to describe Gletkin's special quality: "correct brutality." He had been a mere boy when the Revolution broke out. "That was the generation which had started to think after the flood. It had no traditions, and no memories. ... It was a generation born without umbilical cord...