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Even the cockiest intern can lose his nerve the first time he cuts open a live human being. "It went horribly," admits Dr. William Nolen, recalling his own baptism, a routine appendectomy, at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital 17 years ago. "My knot-tying proficiency had melted away. My fingers, greasy with fat, simply would not perform. My ties slipped off the vessels, the sutures snapped in my fingers; at one point I even managed to tie the end of my rubber glove into the wound...
...figures, compared with the yearly bag records he keeps in a blue notebook. In 1942, his best year, he took 48 pheasant, 72 partridge, 68 hare, 1 woodcock, 106 geese, 146 mallard, 231 widgeon, 193 shelduck, 2 shoveler, 1 tufted duck, 61 plover, 18 pigeon, 79 redshank, 50 knot, 40 curlew, 1 reeve, 1 gadwall, 1 pintail, 1 black-tailed godwit, 2 whimbrel and 6 rabbit. In the early 1960s, the invasion of the marshes by wildfowling clubs convinced Thorpe that the bountiful days were forever gone. Complaining that "the marsh is a regular shooting gallery," he went straight...
...Says the father of one boy who was questioned recently: "It's a witch hunt. You don't know what's going to happen; there are names being bandied about and scare rumors. Who knows how much evidence there is? It gets your stomach in a knot...
Turnabout. That seemed to be the case when the two sloops squared off for the first race in a cold rain and stiff, 20-knot winds. Trailing by 200 yds. at the first mark on the triangular 24.3-mile course, Gretel II attempted to set her spinnaker, but it knotted into the dread hourglass shape that is the stuff of a racing skipper's nightmares, and stayed that way for five agonizing minutes. Barely had the crewmen cleared the headsail when Gretel II nosed into a heavy wave that bucked Crewman Paul Salmon off the slippery deck. While...
...Chinese, many of whom were young government officials, moved off by themselves into a corner-as they usually do. To a man, they pulled out their little red books and began studying the gospel according to Mao. The American teen-agers were fascinated. Two of them approached the knot of Chinese and offered to buy the Mao badges. The Chinese ignored them. The Americans persisted. Then one Chinese let loose with a torrent of Mandarin that sounded abusive...