Word: embeddedness
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A needle, or a part of one, is the hardest to find of any embedded foreign body-a surgeon once spent three hours locating a needle in a man's foot, though the X ray showed it clearly. So Dr. Alexander Edwin William Ada, of Manhattan, who had never...
"SmallTown Girl." Except when it is the most effective way to get things done, Anna Rosenberg is never coy. Dynamic small (5 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.), dark and 43, she has always stayed away from Washington jobs - except at the weekly visit-to-the-President level. She is reluctant...
The Accused Brother. In Ohio a man was accused of murdering his brother, whose skeleton was dug up several years after his disappearance. Professor Krogman readily identified the skeleton as that of the missing man. Then the police asked him a harder question: Could he verify or refute the survivor...
In Los Angeles, a television and wirephoto wizard named Leroy J. Leishman (he thought up push-button radio tuning) has perfected a stereo-fluoroscope which gives a three-dimensional view of the body's interior. With the Leishman device, a surgeon can look into a wounded soldier, twiddle some...
Sweet Change. In Dallas, the City Tax Department received a $13.88 payment in loose change, embedded in a jar of molasses.