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...while making a relatively mild 20-g deceleration to test a harness while sitting on a seat-pack parachute. The quick stop threw him forward, the weight of his body thrust against his palms where they rested on handholds. "A severe pain was felt [in] the right forearm," wrote Stapp in his report. "The right wrist had been taped with adhesive because of a previous fracture . . . This tape burst . . . The pain in the coccyx and sacrum sprained in previous runs was renewed...
...board chairman of the Sperry Corp. Like Gray, he grew up in North Carolina, but on a different level. The son of an impoverished tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into...
...Washington, the Boston Red Sox, already handicapped in the young baseball season by Ted Williams' broken collarbone, suffered another bad break when Pitcher Mel Parnell, a 21 -game winner last year, fractured a bone in his left forearm. The lefthander is expected back in action at about the same time Williams returns: late...
...left arm around my shoulder and with his right hand he started pulling up my skirt." Was there any more con versation? "No sir," she told the Bakersfield coroner, "It was all action." As her muscular assailant reached for her, Mrs. Krone stepped on the throttle, brought her left forearm down on the steering wheel horn ring, and pushed at him with her right hand. He grabbed the wheel and ran the car off the road. She opened the door, jumped...
There have been 16 more operations, many of them of surpassing delicacy, to graft tendons from the foot to the hand and connect them with muscles in the boy's forearm. One of the most crucial, done early this year, was a tendon transfer to give Terry an apposable left thumb. It worked. Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand. British style...