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...Flush the Arteries. Even before the boy, already under anesthesia, was hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sewing Back an Arm | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...manufacturer the Drackett Products Company, him proper spelling. Says , in explanation: "They used laugh when I sat down to write ssword Puzzles for the CRIMSON. n I got a case of Draino through mails. They still laugh when I sit --but boy, does my toilet flush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCAL BOY AKES GOOD | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

Russia's hip generation proclaims its ' independence with a language all its own. For chuvaki, or cool kids, slang also serves a highly practical purpose: it is incomprehensible to parents who may be listening in. To Russian teenagers, flesh-royal (from royal flush) means "the most"; pravilny (literally, proper) is "square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COOL COMRADES | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away before the massive sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Cutting the Arc | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Despite Lopsided Majorities. In the flush of their victory, Republicans were quick to counterattack. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, fired off a telegram to the White House, suggesting that Robert Weaver be named to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who plans to resign as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary to run for the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully assured a press conference that if Weaver were named to the HEW post, "not a single Republican vote" would be cast against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Big Backfire | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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