Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen of the hospital's department heads worked over Prince Mashhur. Their conclusion: he had suffered a brain injury at his birth. The result is akin to cerebral palsy, though the child has no tremor. Abnormal nerve impulses to muscles in the right leg have shortened the heel cord (Achilles' tendon); its shortness forces the prince to walk on the toes and ball of the foot...
...outlet off an extension cord in the hospital emergency room, stripped the insulation off the ends of the wires and plugged the other end into the ordinary house current. Wearing rubber gloves, he touched the wires to opposite sides of Fruehling's heart. Twice the shock failed to work. Dr. Riegel then wrapped each wire around the base of a hypodermic needle and plunged the needles into the heart muscle-where they made a sizzling sound. Under this heroic stimulus, Fruehling's heart resumed its natural beat. This week he will be able to go home...
...Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
...fact that his spinal cord entered his skull from below, says Dr. Dart, suggests that prometheus "strode and raced across the veld" on two legs. Most of the remains so far uncovered have been those of a pygmy-sized creature (about 4 ft. high, 100 lbs.), with a brain twice the size of a chimpanzee...
There, while aides watched the early returns, Kefauver napped. Finally, in the smoke-filled Statler Hotel Presidential Room, in a maze of glowing lights, foot-tripping cord and people jostling each others' highball glasses, he made the loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime Democratic National chairman, insisted that his man had emerged from the pasting unscarred, unscathed, even enhanced. "How about 1960?" some of the crowd yelled. Kefauver's sagging face lit up and split into a crescent-moon grin. "I'm just thinking of relaxing for the next...