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...hand to hand. Three women group under a tent made of shirts to keep the sun off. They pay no attention to the gawkers in fresh-painted yachts who swing close by for a look. A woman nurses a baby so small it can be mistaken for her own forearm...
...otherwise busy squinting up at tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb...
...more. Space-Invaders wrist, described by Medical Student Timothy McCowan of Little Rock, Ark., is a painful stiffness resulting from "repeated prolonged playing" of the popular Atari video game. According to McCowan, himself a sufferer, rapid repetitive arm movement with much abrupt bending and twisting of the wrist and forearm are required to maneuver the spaceship. The second affliction was discovered by Dr. Richard Neiman of Sacramento and Susan Ushiroda of Portland, Ore., after examination of two women who complained of sudden pain in the right shoulder. Investigation revealed that their discomfort followed a weekend of gambling at Lake Tahoe...
...didn't even know he was with the President," she said. The bullet struck Delahanty's left shoulder and lodged in his neck, damaging no blood vessels but bruising a nerve. The result of his wound seemed minor: a temporary loss of sensation on the inside of his left forearm, excessive sweating of the palm and erection of the hairs on his arm. In fact, doctors saw no reason even to remove the bullet from his neck ? until it was discovered that Hinckley had used explosive bullets...
News from Florida: Former Harvard baseball star MIKE STENHOUSE '80 was one of several non-roster players invited to the Montreal Expos major league camp. Stenhouse was impressing the Expos brass until a pitch hit him in the forearm last week. The injury will sideline him for six weeks... LARRY BROWN '79 continues to pitch in the Houston Astros system. After a fine season in the Colombian Winter League. Brown is slated to play for Houston's AA affiliate in Columbus, Georgia, this summer. He would probably be at the AAA level in most other organizations, but the pitching-rich...