Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goats, it voted in 1958 to remain a colony of France, apparently content with the several mil lion dollars a year that the French spend to help support it. Or so it seemed un til last month, when Charles de Gaulle passed through on the first leg of his round-the-world tour. Unexpectedly, he was greeted by riots and demonstrations whose message to the French was clear...
...specialist is a refugee from Toronto in the Canadian League. The cornerback was dismissed as "a troublemaker" by the Washington Redskins; the flanker was cut by the New York Giants be cause he refused to shave off his long sideburns. The quarterback is a college dropout with one good leg and a con suming interest in "golf and girls, but mostly girls." Who are they? Who else...
...daring operations devised by modern surgeons, few have seemed more exciting than "replantation"-the reattachment of a completely severed arm or leg to the body. But, worries the current Journal of the American Medical Association, such operations have become all too popular: too many doctors try them without recognizing the disadvantages for some patients...
...Knowles-who now uses his right hand and arm as if he were naturally left-handed-there have been dozens of similar operations performed. In at least half the cases the surgery failed. Most should never have been tried, argues the A.M.A. "If the patient has one good leg, the other should not be replanted. The chances of neurologic recovery are poor, the handicap of a shortened extremity severe, and the value of a prosthesis great enough that the patient is served best with a good stump and an artificial limb. An entire arm should not usually be restored...
Gordon's troubles, similar to those encountered by Astronaut Eugene Cernan on the flight of Gemini 9, were proof to NASA officials that the mere effort of controlling arm and leg movements during a weightless space walk in a bulky space suit is far more trying than anyone had imagined. As a result, future space flights will probably schedule less ambitious space-walking chores...