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...country. One day last week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called a "flifis": a double backward somersault with a twist. Something went wrong. He seemed to lose control in midair, fell 14 ft. head-first and sprawled motionless on the trampoline. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a dislocated cervical vertebra-in layman's language, a broken neck. At week's end his condition was still listed as "critical," and the probability of permanent...
With the score at 65-60, Bill Danner stole the ball and was heading for the basket when Dartmouth's Sam Barton sent him flying head-first into the wall behind the backboard. Danner, dazed, missed both his free throws. With 12 seconds left, Danner tied a Harvard record by nearly going through the other wall...
...make a stand at a point code-named Blackpool. Outnumbered and outgunned. Masters' men were slowly driven back. "I wanted to cry," he writes, "but dared not, could only mutter 'Well done, well done.' " The brutality of battle numbed both armies. "A Cameronian lieutenant fell head-first into a weapon pit and two Japanese soldiers five yards away leaned weakly on their rifles and laughed, slowly, while the officer struggled to his feet, slowly, and trudged up the slope. The shells fell slowly and burst with long, slow detonations, and the men collapsed slowly to the ground...
...John Carter, an R.A.F. medical officer, kept the unconscious Moss alive by pumping oxygen down a tube. One after the other, eight men were lowered down the shaft, but only three reached Moss, and all blacked out because of the motionless, foul air. None was able to make a head-first descent and keep an oxygen mask over his face. Finally a tiny (5 ft.) printer from Derby named Ron Peters, 25, got close enough to be able to touch the trapped man's shoulder but began to gasp for air, had to be pulled up fast. On being...
Mike Schumann and pinch-hitter Ron Cheney led off with scratch singles. Then Dick Morrison, attempting to sacrifice, bunted a low, twisting pop-up down the third base line. Emmet made a head-first dive for the ball, knocking it into foul territory, and the bases were loaded. Clearly rattled by the play, the tall lefthander walked the next two batters, forcing in two Eli runs, before he was finally replaced by Byron Johnson...