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...courts often disregard incontrovertible medical evidence in granting damage claims, said Dr. Auster, citing specific cases. Sample: The scalp of a 45-year-old construction laborer, superficially grazed by a swinging hook on the end of a derrick cable, later developed a friable, fungating ulceration. X rays showed "extensive metastatic involvement"; cancer had spread to the head from a primary tumor in the workman's kidney. The cancer had obviously been spreading for months before the accident, and the scalp injury only served to call attention to it. Nevertheless, said Auster, the court granted a "substantial" award...
...Roger J. Fothergill, in the British Medical Journal, report use of the gadget in 100 cases at Worcester. The metal cup is inserted in the opening of the birth canal and applied to the baby's skull. Pressure is reduced to half an atmosphere or less, so the scalp develops a big bump or "chignon," which fills the cup. Danger of maternal infection is reduced, the doctors assert, because no foreign body passes beyond the baby's head. Risk of injury to the mother-and apparently to the baby-is virtually eliminated. The chignon subsides within a couple...
...every land, wherever the sun sets and curtains rise, Falstaff struts with his gorbellied wit, Bottom bumbles through the woods, and wide-eyed Ophelia trembles before Hamlet's abuse. Malvolio preens like a toad in yellow stockings. Hotspur wells blood. In soliloquy and song, in bantering bawdry and scalp-tingling rhetoric, in the kingliest English and in tender or rough translation, they speak to man from mankind's heart. Never in the nearly 400 years since their creator was born have Shakespeare's characters spoken to so many, or meant so much. Nowhere do they mean more...
...Lost Scalp. In the eyes of even his closest supporters, Kishi was finished. Against him were ranged the Socialists, the Communists, the hot-eyed Zengaku-ren students. Every Tokyo newspaper, except the English-language Japan Times, called for his scalp. In his own faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party, knives were being sharpened as the politicos dreamed of artfully seizing the premiership-just as Kishi himself had captured the post three years before...
After Librarian Mary Knowles was convicted of contempt of Congress in 1957 for clamming up about her supposed Red ties before a Senate subcommittee, the Quaker-operated William Jeanes Memorial Library in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. not only ignored a community outcry for her scalp but also gave her a raise. The library got a $5,000 award from the Fund for the Republic. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Librarian Knowles's conviction, thus spared her a four-month jail stretch and $500 fine...