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...wide that it eventually appeared among Ashkenazic families that did not know they were related. Then a husband and wife, each bearing the gene, began to have dysautonomic children. On the average, one-fourth of the offspring of such marriages will have two normal genes (see diagram); two will be healthy but carry one abnormal gene, while the fourth will have defective genes-as well as the disease...
...nonalignment is too great to be corrected by an operation on the lower jaw alone, Dr. Obwegeser may move all or part of the upper jaw. With remarkable versatility, he can even move it upward or downward, sometimes removing small pieces of bone to achieve the desired repositioning (see diagram) and using the chips to space out the lower jaw. Bone from a receding chin may be removed and replaced at the front...
...Cartographer Robert M. Chapin Jr. fell the intricate assignment of showing precisely what happens to the baseball as Marichal pitches-fastball, screwball, slider and curve. Marichal posed his right hand and ball grip for the four photographs in the diagram that illustrates the cover story, and made several suggestions and corrections in the drafts of Chapin's drawing. It should be pointed out that Chapin brought some baseball credentials of his own to the task. He once pitched for the Pirates -the Park Road Pirates of Washington...
...fastball and a curve," says St. Louis Outfielder Mike Shannon. "They're the two best pitches in the league. But Marichal has more. He has four or five-and he can control them all." Shannon hasn't seen the half of it: Juan has 13 pitches (see diagram), and one of the keys to his success is that he exhibits no particular fondness for any of them. "You can't anticipate him," explains Outfielder Frank Robinson, late of Cincinnati and currently of the Baltimore Orioles, who freely admits that he is happy to be playing...
...myocardial infarction out at his home. I want the person brought to my hospital where he can be put in an intensive care unit. Going to the home just wastes time." If the variety of specialists makes some people feel that their body is being treated like a diagram in a butcher's shop, U.S. doctors retort that this is only the necessary fragmentation of a science advancing too fast and grown too complex for any one man to know all there is to know. Even so, the average doctor works 60 hours a week...