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...clawed in the face during a practice, was hitting the floor and grabbing more than his share of rebounds. Johnson made some fancy plays on offense and defense, indicating he can make the team without having played freshman ball. Johnson was out of action last year with a bone cyst in his right ankle, but he worked out faithfully at Hemenway with his PT-seeking classmates...
...folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried to extend his leg. The X rays showed no other damage-only a small cyst, of no importance...
...medial meniscus was not simply torn: it was shredded. But he had intended to cut out this whole piece of cartilage anyway, because if any part of a damaged meniscus remains in place it causes erosion of the bone and has to be removed in a later operation. The cyst came out with the meniscus...
...left ear that had not yielded to penicillin. Then the engineer remembered that on a hunting trip in Venezuela he had been bitten on the ear, and later had felt a wriggling sensation inside it. Surgeon Kaye set to work to clean out what seemed like a purulent cyst, and in it he found a white maggot, almost an inch long. Two days later, he removed another maggot. The Department of Agriculture's Entomologist Richard P. Higgins identified the doctor's find as larvae of the human botfly, known to scientists as Dermatobia hominis...
...heard the news when she awakened at 7:50 a.m. in Suite 843 of Beverly Hills' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The day before, disguised in a blonde wig and slacks, she had slipped out to Doctors' Hospital for removal of a cyst. Before attending an All Saints' Day Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd, she told reporters bitterly: "I believe all the devils of hell are against us, but we will triumph eventually." If the news of the coup was true, "it would be a shame for many Americans." The Diem regime, she claimed, had been...