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...scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that looked like the gadget used to pluck a cereal box off the top shelf of a grocery store, Surgeon Humphreys was going to reach through the opening in the wall and remove an ostrich-egg-sized lump from the back of a Vietnamese farmer...
Ready for Home. The elaborate precautions were understandable. The lump below Nguyen Van Chin's twelfth rib was a Viet Cong grenade, capable of spraying inch-long wire chunks in every direction at about 4,800 ft. per second. The problem began one night last week when Chin felt the call of nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades...
These blanket condemnations lump together a variety of different phenomena, each requiring a very different response...
...couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security bonuses will quickly be spent, chiefly on food, clothing, recreation, services and travel. Reason: couples over 65 have an average income of only...
...wants. If the player says no, back he goes into the pool, and comes up for the next draft-an older and presumably wiser man. Unlike the pro football draft, where a player retains some competitive bargaining power through rival leagues, he can either like it or lump it. And where a pro football player can play out a year's option and then be free to deal for himself, the baseball draft could theoretically bind a player to one team for life...