Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly looks like the stuff of legend: plump and puckish, a shy grin on his broad leg-of-mutton face, a shoulder holster sagging from the armpit of his sweat-blotched, green T shirt, a drinker of nothing more stimulating than cream soda. Yet Senior Chief Petty Officer Bernard G. Feddersen, 35, of the Seabees, is renowned from Danang to the Delta as the sharpest cumshaw artist in all Southeast Asia...
Masochism Syndrome. Pennsylvania-born Pyne got his first job at the age of eleven working on an ice truck in Atlantic City, later put in time on seven radio stations in four states and Canada. A World War II marine with three battle stars and a wooden leg, Pyne fancies himself a foreign-affairs expert. His Asia policy, for instance, is to bomb Red China. When California Democratic Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan expressed a less hawkish view, Pyne, who had phoned him for an opinion in the first place, sneered: "What qualifies you to comment on military strategy...
Larry Rink, of Centreville, Mich., who quit high school to work in a paper mill, was only 20 when his right leg had to be amputated because of bone cancer. In less than a year, the disease recurred with its usual malignancy. To Dr. Ray Houghton, an osteopathic physician of White Pigeon, it seemed that Rink's only chance lay in cross-transplants of cancer tissues with other patients-a bold technique under investigation at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo (TIME, March...
Rink, who got married two years ago and whose wife expects a baby in September, looked forward jubilantly to getting an artificial leg and a steady job. Osteopath Houghton was more guarded: "We cannot say he is cured-we have to wait five or ten years before we can speak of a cure. But if the disease had progressed normally, this patient would have been dead by now." The Roswell Park doctors, determined not to kindle premature hopes in other cancer victims, said nothing...
...scalp and injury to his brain," reported Surgeon James C. Drye of Louisville. "His right lung was torn and there was a fair amount of blood in his chest. His spleen was ruptured and bleeding. There were about three quarts of blood in his abdomen. His left leg was almost amputated. His pelvis was fractured. He was not hit by an artillery shell in Viet Nam, as one might think from the extent of his injuries. He was wounded while riding a motorbike on the streets of our community...