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...holocaust to patch ripped chests, plug bottles of plasma into dangling arms, give bloody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to corpses and wounded alike, shoot Syrettes of morphine into mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn, the job done, Joel recalls looking at himself: hands encrusted with blood to the wrists, legs thick with edema and dirty bandages. He lay under a tree and cried for the first time since he was a boy in Winston-Salem...
...refused repeatedly to discuss in open session a NASA staff report that was harshly critical of North American's early work on the Apollo. The problems of workmanship and management have since been corrected (TIME, May 12), Webb maintained, and to make them public now would only hamper NASA's relationship with North American...
Many experts believe that the new rule actually will hamper shorter men-who use the dunk shot as a means of combating taller defenders such as Alcindor. In fact one of the most prolific dunkers in college basketball last season was Niagara Freshman Calvin Murphy, who stands only...
...vote). Tiernan came out in full support of the Johnson Administration. DiPrete at first favored a suspension of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam, then-realizing that he was losing votes thereby-backtracked and declared that he was "flexible" and "certainly opposed to doing anything which would hamper our troops...
Castro realizes all too painfully that his own campaign in Latin America-in the form of his vicious little "wars of liberation"-has been a dismal failure. Russia's new emphasis on broader trade and diplomatic relations can only further hamper that campaign. For their part, the men in power in Latin America see it as an opportunity to drive an even deeper wedge between Moscow and Havana, and possibly even get Russia to tone down Cuba's guerrilla wars. Venezuela's own Communist Party, for example, recently called for a "tactical withdrawal" from guerrilla...