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Farmer Folke Trana, of Valo, Sweden, was plowing a boggy field when his plow dug out of the gooey dirt a crude wooden dragon's head about a foot long. Farmer Trana was agreeably surprised, but when he reported his find to the State Historical Museum, its experts were delighted. The carved head, they decided, might be part of a "High Seat" of the Viking...
...began last week with a startling announcement that last year's Georgian purge, like that of the Kremlin doctors, had been "a crude violation of Soviet...
Thus Creel amputated his forearm. Holding the arm against his ribs and squeezing it with his right hand to stanch the bleeding, he walked a mile to the nearest house, where he got a towel for a crude tourniquet. Two hours after the accident, he got to a hospital in Hattiesburg. Professionals tidied up his rough & ready surgery, and Creel was soon resting easily. Then he expressed his chief fear: that the amputation might make it harder for him to support his wife and baby...
...commando go blundering after them. A commando leader said: "We were doing a little maneuver with some Lancashire Fusiliers. The Fusiliers passed us a tree trunk's breadth away. There were 20 of us, and they never saw us. If we had been Mau Mau!" He made a crude gesture with a calloused hand across his throat...
...says Harlem Hospital's Dr. Jules Weinstein, may offer more scope for hypnosis than any other branch of medicine, because 1) nearly all dental operations are painful; 2) the patient usually has to go back for more; and 3) "dentistry retains the taint and stigma of its early . . . crude and torturing methods." But patients who can get by without hypnosis should not have it, says Dr. Weinstein; it should be reserved for those who feel that they need it because they cannot face up to the pain of even routine dental work, and for others who may have...