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Died. Gerhard Küntscher, 72, German surgeon who in 1939 developed a novel means of setting bone fractures; of a heart attack; in Glücksburg, West Germany. Küntscher's innovation was to drill a hole lengthwise into each section of a broken bone, then insert a metal pin to join the break. The stability of the pin led to quicker recovery, and after winning adherents during World War II, the technique has been widely adopted by orthopedic surgeons, particularly for athletes, who break bones often and whose speedy recovery may be vital to a team...
...experiments also posed problems. Cernan worked so hard trying to drill holes for the important heat-flow experiment-which had been inadvertently disconnected on the Apollo 16 mission-that his pulse climbed to 150 beats per minute. NASA doctors, monitoring his heartbeat, ordered him to rest. Coming to Cernan's aid, Schmitt took a dramatic spill as he tried to extract a balky core tube from the ground. All of the experiments were finally set up, but it was learned later that a key instrument-the surface gravimeter-had jammed. It was a bitter disappointment to scientists...
...Dynasty. In fact, as his players and many of his coaching peers agree, Shula has perhaps the soundest best-organized technical mind in pro football today. Studying films hour after eye-reddening hour, harping with drill-sergeant insistence on conditioning and the execution of fundamentals, Shula began to build a new dynasty. His 1970 team, green in more than the color of its jerseys (average age: 25) compiled a 10-4 record, gained the A.F.C. play-offs and won Shula his third Coach of the Year award. Last year the Dolphins won ten regular-season games, as well...
...order to develop toughness in his athletes. Knight uses a number of drills which at first sight would seem better suited for a football field. One of them, for example, consists of the team breaking up into two lines at opposite, sides of the court. On the coach's signal, the two players must dive to the floor in order to pick up a loose ball. Most football teams use the same drill in full equipment...
Harvard Coach Bob Harrison, who built a career in the NBA on his toughness, said Friday night that he tried to employ a similar drill at Harvard. He indicated that he was forced to discontinue it, because too many players complained that they were getting hurt. He went on to say that Harvard kids had "very low pain thresholds." On one occasion, he said, a ballplayer had began screening simply when he put his leg in a whirlpool both. The Harvard coach surmised that the reason Knight was able to use the drills he did was that he could...