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Tennis elbow is apparently set off by the repeated, jarring impact of the ball on the racket. The shock is transmitted to the arm, where it raises havoc-for reasons that doctors, despite long experience with tennis-elbow victims, still do not fully understand. Most of the pain seems to be caused by inflammation of the ligaments that join the two bones of the forearm-the radius and ulna-to the two spurs, or epicondyles, on the end of the humerus, or upper arm bone (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hacker's Hazard | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

Meanwhile son Danny is wreaking havoc with the reporters He has comandeered a pen and a notebook and is recording his own impressions of the whole scene. Someone rolls a yellow Spalding tennis ball over and he picks it up and throws it at the refreshmen table...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Hottest Property in Women's Tennis | 4/13/1973 | See Source »

This season Goodenow came up with ten goals and 20 assists, finishing fourth in overall scoring behind Bob McManama, Bill Corkery and Randy Roth. He also played the point on the power play, wreaking havoc with his hard and accurate slap shot. Roth and Jim Thomas played with Goodenow on the second line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Elect Goodenow, Noonan as Co-captains | 3/14/1973 | See Source »

...fell in love with Jason through the agency of the goddesses Hera and Aphrodite, the deities are conspicuously absent from the play as instruments of inevitability. The heroine does not fall through a fatal flaw, or die, and the catharsis of pity and terror is largely missing. Medea wreaks havoc on herself and those around her by fulfilling her own nature, that of being a creature of unbridled emotions. To Euripides and his Greek audience, the tragedy was probably regarded as that of all humankind whenever passion overcomes reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Classics Revisited | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

DUNLOP IS HONESTLY concerned that exorbitant Union demands would wreak havoc on a Faculty budget that has only this year edged back into the black. On a less statesman-like level, he is undoubtedly also fearful that the Union would erode his strength in dealing with his Faculty constituency. But his refusal to publicly recognize the Union and its legitimate concerns has seemingly gained him nothing and helped to insure that it will be around to plague him for some time to come...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Union Bests Dunlop | 12/8/1972 | See Source »

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