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...Whipping down a practice bobsled run, Belgium's Charles de Sorger wound up with a broken arm and an injured spine...
...jackets are built with a doweled spine wide enough to carry lettering. In addition, records are "factory-sealed" for protection against being played by record-shop disk jockeys. They sell for $4.98, and sell as well or better than the same records in unadorned envelopes...
...actual clanging manhole cover. Life may end as a pickled monstrosity in a jar of alcohol; with Bradbury, in The Jar, that end is only a beginning. There are 19 stories in this book, but the best of the lot is more rib-tickling than spine-tingling. The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse tells of a fellow called George Garvey, so indescribably dull and ordinary that he becomes the pet of an avant-garde group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable...
Many heart men are returning to the field of their earliest successes-surgery. To check hypertension in some cases of nervous origin there is a formidable two-stage operation, sympathectomy: whole series of nerve bundles beside the spine are cut. Increasingly daring surgery is also coming to the aid of atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit...
...with stage fright that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that he has always been sound of wind and limb...