Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince's breakneck driving habits, a platoon of agronomists to start Operation Poté Colé (Pull Together), which is designed to hike farm productivity in once-fertile northern Haiti. Taking up a desk just down the hall from Finance Minister Andre Theard, ICA's Nolle Smith, 70, a Negro economist from Wyoming, has helped cut petty corruption and inefficiency, is now sitting in on talks about a schedule of taxes and customs duties. Cost of the ICA effort in 18 months...
...movies while it was still rolling out of George (Seven Year Itch) Axelrod's typewriter, was a moneymaker before it went into rehearsal. All it needs now, as Author Axelrod sees it, is a new finish. Boasting the most improbable plot since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith, Charlie tells the story of a $3,000-a-week Hollywood writer (Charlie Sorell) who spent most of his time in bed with other men's wives and is brought back after death-in the body of Lauren Bacall. "In some sort of jazzy, Old Testament way," says his best...
...sunny day last July, Mechanic Billy Smith, 25, went on the job to reline a steel furnace at the U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. in Decoto, Calif., south of Oakland. Overhead a giant hook dangled from a traveling crane. In a freak accident, the hook crashed down on Billy Smith's right leg and severed it just above the knee. For three hours and 35 minutes, Billy Smith's leg was kept with his body only by a two-inch-wide ribbon of skin...
...When Smith was brought into Eden Hospital in nearby Castro Valley, Dr. Stephen Landreth, 37, an orthopedic surgeon, prepared for a standard amputation. Then he had a thought: "This is too good a leg to throw away." He got on the telephone to Dr. Alan Gathright, 38, a vascular surgeon, 20 miles away in Oakland. Asked Dr. Landreth: "You want to try for a miracle?" Gathright did, and he sped to the hospital...
...Billy Smith's leg, held by metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...