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Pacemakers and Corsets. In addition to their long experience, Super-Seniors bring to the court a variety of infirmities. Travis Smith, who enters 15 to 18 tournaments a year, totes to each event a set of electrocardiograms for the benefit of local doctors-should their assistance be needed. His only real problem since a heart attack 15 years ago arose when his first implanted pacemaker proved inadequate for his vigorous regimen. Pacemaker No. 2, he says, works just fine. When Chaffee plays, he wears a steel-ribbed corset to support his back; he has a displaced vertebra...
Early that morning the 335 starting drivers had pulled on hockey shin guards, corset-like plastic chest protectors, and all the cold-weather gear they could wear and still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward...
...fractured her ankle in three places. After missing three performances of A Matter of Gravity in Los Angeles, Trouper Katie returned to work in a wheelchair. Heavyweight Boxer Jerry Quarry, whose pickup truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took a fall while filming a Foreign Legion adventure called March or Die. His horse was frightened by a camel...
...connected with famed Bulgari diamond merchants, of course, the Vulgari is surrounded by "diamonds and pearls. . . except for the third pearl from the left, which is courtesy of Woolworth's." Other gems are the " 'La Fabiola' Faerie Diamond," the "Royal Order of the Corset" rubies, and the social climber's special-an outsized pendant dubbed "The Fitz-Hall" ("and it does"), featuring France's Regent diamond, now barricaded in the Louvre...
...Perhaps the sweatshop boss best summarizes the differences between the Old and New Worlds when he observes that in America, "the peddler becomes the boss and the Yeshiva student sits at the sewing machine." At one point, as her neighbor Mrs. Kavarsky is squeezing a groaning Gitl into a corset for that sleek American look, she tells her, "You wanna be in America, you gotta hurt...