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...three-way battle for the gold in the high jump pushed an East German to a new world record. Gerd Wessing, 21, cleared 7 ft. 8 ¾ in. on his second attempt, breaking the old mark by a quarter inch. Another East German, Lutz Dombrowski, 21, became only the second man ever to exceed 28 ft. in the long jump, but his 28 ft. ¼ in. fell more than a foot short of the record set in 1968 by American Bob Beamon...
Comaneci was last, and she approached the beam needing a 9.9 to tie Davidova, a 9.95 to win outright. Until this Olympics, she had not scored below 9.95 Son the four-inch wide apparatus, and there seemed no reason why she could not lift her score again. But her knee bent ever so slightly on a difficult 360° rotation, and she lost her balance for a millisecond after a patented front flip with a half twist. Even so, she seemed tinged with gold...
...horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
Though the back is thus elastic, its parts are in delicate balance; any damage in one area can disrupt the whole complex machinery. Sometimes the trouble starts in youth. If one leg, for instance, grows significantly longer (more than half an inch) than the other-a not infrequent occurrence -it puts unequal pressures on the spine. If certain of the vertebrae have failed to form properly, the result may be a pronounced sideways curve called scoliosis, a condition that causes disability and pain. Tumors can grow in the confined regions of the spinal column, pressing or pinching nerves. In cases...
After a troubling hiatus of suspended peace talks and intensified violence in the occupied West Bank, Israel and Egypt last week began to inch back to the bargaining table. In quick succession, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin both accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to send their top negotiators to Washington in early July. There was little cause for celebration; everyone knew that formidable differences remain on the issue of Palestinian autonomy and that no major concessions are likely to be made by either side before the U.S. election. Moreover...