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...sailor named Julio Luna Vera, 32, was brought into Ecuador's Clinica Guayaquil with a right hand so shattered by a grenade explosion that amputation was necessary. Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, 47, who had never done any transplant work, decided to try. He put a tourniquet on Luna's arm and cooled it with cracked ice. He had a donor: a 43-year-old laborer-also named Luna-who lay dying of internal hemorrhage in another Guayaquil hospital where his family gave permission for the transplant...
...minutes after death, Donor Luna's right forearm was removed, flushed with a clot-preventing solution, packed in ice and rushed to the clinic. There a team of surgeons worked all night with Gilbert; after ten hours Sailor Luna had a new hand...
...icebreaker," says the wife of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. And they already have quite a collection of monikers for their just-named two-year-olds. There's Kiss of Death, a daughter of Femme Fatale, Gone Goose, by Crafty Admiral out of Sitting Duck, and Shakedown Cruise, by Sailor out of Plucky Maid. But the game has one drawback: like any horse owners, the Vanderbilts are the final arbiters. Smiles Jean: "I must admit most of the names we finally select are the ones my husband thinks...
Catching a Vacuum. An iceboat travels fastest across the wind-on what sailors call "a reach." Its speed results from the sail's efficiency as an airfoil -something like the wing on an airplane. Sailing directly downwind, an iceboat cannot exceed the wind's speed. On a reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls...
...chairman of Wall Street's powerful First Boston Corp., lanky George D. Woods was an orthodox banker by day and a gambler in his off hours. Woods did his gambling as a Broadway angel, bankrolled a few flops but also a list of such long-runs as Sailor, Beware! and Dead End. As World Bank president, Woods, 62, is now serving as angel for more universal enterprises. Under Eugene Black, the bank prospered by making hard loans for productive public works. When he succeeded his longtime friend last year, Woods recognized that the bank had undergone its own form...