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Competition had not even begun at Portillo when disaster hit the U.S. team. Zipping down a slope at 60 m.p.h. in practice, Kidd lost his balance, skittered 200 yds., and snapped both bones in his right leg. Colorado's Jim Barrows injured a knee and an elbow, had to be scratched from the men's downhill; Idaho's Walter Falk fell during the race and suffered a concussion. The bright young star of the women's team, California's 16-year-old Penny McCoy, did give the U.S. one medal - its only one -when...
...boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints and heel spurs; Russ has bursitis in his elbow, tendinitis in his knee, and strained ligaments in his ankle...
They could play a mean game of mixed doubles. Papa George, 46, was a promising righthanded baseball pitcher until he injured his elbow and took up tennis-mainly because it was the only one-armed game he knew of. Now he is a lefthanded teaching pro. Mama Betty, 42, is also a pro. Daughter Nancy, 23, shares No. 1 ranking among U.S. women amateurs with Wimbledon Champion Billie Jean King, and son Cliff, 19, is the No. 3-ranked amateur male player...
...week's end Speck was found in a Chicago West Side flophouse bleeding from slashes in his right wrist and left elbow which may have been self-in flicted. Police rushed him to a hospital where the alleged slayer was in serious condition...
...catalogue of Ike's complaints is considerable: swollen and painful wrists and hands; a touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease...