Word: cramp
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...elusive something called the "Nashville Sound." More than the drawling, sowbelly accents and nasal intonations of the singers, it is the background music provided by the sidemen on twangy electric guitars. They are a small, seasoned corps whose musical prowess is more heart than art. Few, lest it cramp their style, have had formal training. In fact, they tend to pride themselves on their inability to read music, "and the few who can," says RCA Victor Executive Steve Sholes, "don't let it interfere with their performance...
...World Series time, the coldness and discomfort that New York Yankee Southpaw Whitey Ford had often felt in his left hand became a strength-robbing cramp afflicting his whole arm. But not until after the second game when he even had trouble shaving did Ford seek medical help from Dr. Martin L. Schulman of Long Island Jewish Hospital. The diagnosis: Pitcher Ford had an apparently complete blockage of the axillary artery, which carries blood through the shoulder toward the fingertips...
...Adding. Two months ago, just as Joāo and Getz were about to launch a countrywide tour, Joāo developed a "cramp in his playing arm" and had to bow out. Astrud replaced him and suddenly found herself a star. Astrud is herself a girl from Ipanema, a section of Rio de Janeiro's sparkling beach front, who came to the U.S. two years ago with Joāo. Last week, with the single edition of The Girl from Ipanema burning up the teen-age record market, Astrud Gilberto was trying to get used...
...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia...
...most debated experiment in U.S. plane fares in many years is something called one-class service. Started only five months ago by United Air Lines' peppery President W. A. ("Pat") Patterson, it is an effort to take the cramp out of coach travel and the expense out of first class with a single service that provides some of the first-class amenities at fares somewhat (10%) above coach rates. United, the nation's largest domestic airline, already uses one-class service on 30 daily flights across the U.S. Next week it will more than double the number...