Word: shin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband, she heard a youth scream something about Kennedy. "Don't talk that way about the Senator!" she snapped. "Lady," he replied, "I've been shot." And Ethel knelt to kiss the cheek of Erwin Stroll, 17, a campaign worker who had been wounded in the left shin...
...Albright-Knox Gallery (TIME, March 15), included five abstract environments. Drollest among them was the Pneumatic Garden of Eden, created by M.I.T.'s Otto Piene, in which huge, air-filled plastic tubes waved in the air like undersea coral growths in a darkened room lit at shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with mirrors on the walls, floor and ceiling. Looking up, festivalgoers could see themselves, standing on their heads a thousand times; looking down...
...people who overdo the famous Royal Canadian Air Force exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances can make your knees arthritic or give you shin splints." Recent studies at the University of Saskatchewan confirm earlier suspicions that some of the so-called isometric exercises can impose dangerous demands on the heart...
...began to set up road and street blocks to intercept the assassins. Even so, they got within several hundred yards of the Blue House before police sighted and challenged them. A brief battle ensued, in which a policeman and a guerrilla were killed, and one young guerrilla, Lieut. Shin Jo Kim, was captured. The rest of the North Koreans escaped, and a nationwide man hunt spread out to catch them before they could get back through the DMZ. By week's end all but ten had been caught, but only one alive. The rest died shooting, killing 18 people...
Over the years, hockey players have added shoulder pads, kidney pads, shin guards, ankle guards, instep guards-until they now wear something like 25 lbs. of protection. But few wear anything to shield the face and head. Masterton's death has sparked demands that pros wear helmets-as do players in most amateur leagues. "I'm going to take a careful look at the possibility of wearing one," says Chicago Black Hawks Star Bobby Hull, and his teammate, Stan Mikita, insists that he will wear one "from now on-so I can spend next summer cutting grass instead...