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...practiced" writing with his nonexistent left hand. The mental effort evidently worked through the nerve stumps and nearby muscles. After months of phantom writing, the electrician said that he had brought the phantom arm around in front of his body, and could raise it over his head. More tangibly, scar tissue that had been painfully contracted was stretched, so that an extensive grafting operation became unnecessary. Now virtually free of phantom pain, the patient has an artificial arm and is training to be a bookkeeper...
...last week, Irvin Chambers Scar-beck, 41, a second secretary in the U.S. embassy in Poland, had learned that it wasn't a joke after all. Scarbeck. a mild-mannered married man and the father of four children, had fallen into one of the weariest of Communist traps and, in consequence, was picked up by the FBI and charged with passing secret information to Communists...
...teachers as Sir William Osier and Harvey Gushing, and soon became a teacher and investigator in their tradition. After getting a medical research unit started at the University of California, Dr. Whipple was lured East to be the first dean of what was, in 1921, little more than a scar on the face of the earth: the University of Rochester's new School of Medicine and Dentistry. In his 32 years as dean, Dr. Whipple made it one of the top U.S. schools, competing with Harvard, Cornell and his own Hopkins...
...Double Scar. Great nations are always criticized when they appear aggressive. They are despised when they seem weak. By backing an inadequate and mismanaged invasion attempt, President Kennedy achieved the unhappy feat of making the U.S. seem both aggressive and weak at the same time. Victory would have brought outcries against "imperialism." but at least it would have been victory. Said a Latin American diplomat to a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "You succeeded in Guatemala, and that left a scar. You failed in Cuba, and that will leave a double scar...
...west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...