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Never break the spine of a book, John Fist's father once admonished; it's as wrong as killing a helpless animal. So when Sophomore Fist flopped down in his dormitory room at Sheldon College to do a little studying one night, the first thing he did was snap back the cover boards on Kohler's The Mentality of Apes as far as they would go. What the hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman...
Back home in Miami, doctors finally diagnosed a slipped disk, put Pennel into traction, tried to persuade him to undergo a spinal fusion operation. He refused, and last summer he began competing again-shunning practice sessions as a pointless risk. To protect his spine from "jamming," he now lands flat on his back instead of on his feet, uses his elbows to soften the impact. How much longer he can keep on, Pennel does not know. One thing he does know: "I want that outdoor record back, and I'm going...
...What a helluva bore," yawned a controller at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center as Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell monotonously orbited the earth last week. By week's end, as Gemini 7 completed its seventh uneventful day in space, the flight had indeed escaped the spine-tingling crises that enlivened-and plagued-earlier shots. But the ennui in Houston and elsewhere in the U.S. was a high accolade. It demonstrated that flawless performance has become commonplace, that near-perfect timing, preparation and execution of Gemini flights have become routine...
...Spine. Buffy's protest songs are strictly personal. She is not interested in Viet Nam or the Bomb, but in Uncle Sam's treatment of the Indian. But protest is not her only pitch, and she has other things on her mind that any non-Indian can share. What fires her songs with feeling is the peculiarly husky timbre and flexibility of her voice. She can purr, she can belt, she can shade her voice with an eerie tremble that crawls up the listener's spine. Unlike the pure, mountain-spring soprano of Joan Baez...
Noting that fast-healing humans also had a high zinc content in their bodies, Air Force doctors began trying zinc on patients at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. They worked with men suffering from relatively common and painful pilonidal sinuses (which appear near the base of the spine), the removal of which leaves a cavernous wound. Six .men who had moderately large excisions and got only standard treatment took an average of 62 days for healing. Seven, with wound cavities averaging almost three times as large, healed in only 45 days. The only difference in treatment was that...