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...have been following the Boston papers since the accident and hopefully watching his progress. This is the first time I really found out what happened to the child. Through your diagram and article I got a clear and concise picture of what has been done...
...restore the arm's circulation. Specialists in blood-vessel repair first made sure the blood would have a way to get out. With neat and delicate sutures, they stitched the arm's two main veins to their extensions in Ev's shoulder (see diagram). Next, they opened a way for the blood to get in by rejoining the major (brachial) artery. Says Dr. Shaw: "When we took off the clamps from the artery above the break, we rejoiced at the pinking up of the arm as the blood ran through it." It was just 3½ hours...
...Reader Rutchka's combinations are winners, but any Nim game can be won by using the 18 combinations given in TIME'S diagram. If he wishes, however, he can substitute his combinations for 6-5-3 and 6-4-3-1 in diagram and still win any game...
...solution: a new-type silo (see diagram) that will enable the engine gases to escape to the surface through W-shaped ducts leading away from the missile's base...
...fact, Nim is more of a trap than a game. The canny con man, with all the possible combinations locked in his head, graciously allows his victim to go first (see diagram). Since Nim's starting setup (7-5-3-1) is a winning combination itself, whoever tampers with it (i.e., the player who makes the first move) is doomed. But even if the wily match-sharp, out of courtesy or cunning, should agree to move first in an occasional game, he can still save the day by resorting to the memorized combinations as soon as the proper situation...