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...Last week, in Columbus' University Hospital, Gene Snyder, 25, a victim of rheumatoid arthritis, who already had a partial artificial joint (made of steel) in his right hip, was laid out on his right side and anesthetized. Surgeon Wilson made a long incision clear down to the bone, and exposed the left hip joint which had been fused by the arthritic inflammation. He sawed off the top of the thigh bone (femur), ground the remaining end of the bone to the right depth and angle. He reamed out a hemispheric cavity in the pelvic bone, to accommodate the socket...
...very partial to New Yorkers," says Coach McGuire. "I can get any boy I want in New York. I've only got from Oct. 15 to Dec. 1 to practice with them before the season starts, but they're playing all the time. Almost all of them go to the Catskills in the summer, work all day as waiters and play ball at night...
SURPRISED BY JOY, by C. S. Lewis. A partial autobiography by the Oxford don, which makes Christianity an exciting intellectual adventure as well as an act of faith. Its description of the road that led from indifference to skepticism to a firm belief in God makes this one of the most graceful and credible "conversion" books in years...
...Union Committee had asked for extension of Yard hours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. However the Board would only give partial approval to this request granting the freshmen an 8 p.m. curfew on Saturday nights...
From the missile-testing station at Cape Canaveral, Fla.. a modified Viking rocket soared up 125 miles one night last week, its bright exhaust glowing briefly like a wrong-way shooting star. Its flight was a partial test of the "vehicle" that will lift the U.S. artificial satellite in 1958, and the instruments that will steer it, into its orbit around the earth. When the satellite is established there, one of its most important jobs will be to keep track of the global movements of the white clouds far below. It will then be busy at the homely...