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...When a Finnish professor discovered a minor new comet, immemorial portent of war, famine and pestilence, the Berlin radio gave hurried reassurance: "These comets have their rational explanation. There is no need to have cold shivers running over your spine...
...first few days, at least, fighting on the Gustav Line would be a job of battering the enemy, feeling him out, making him commit his reserves to the wrong place. Possibly not even General Alexander could yet tell where he would finally thrust his knife to rip up the spine of Italy...
...photograph you print is a spine chiller. It chilled mine when I first saw the original, and I went into it as I would into the water at a Maine beach. But everything is relative. ... I saw no "callousness." The contact was always human, if not necessarily "humane. . . ." "Nursing methods are not standardized." Neither are complexes, fixations, psychoses, nor the outside world...
...Some sharp object had ripped through an aviator from the spine nearly to the navel. He was near death when he arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later. In two hours, surgeons gave him twelve units of plasma and ten pints of blood. Two months later the captain saw him in a West Coast hospital and he "looked pretty good...
Riding in jeeps, touring in tanks and taking the bumps of basic training have caused such an increase in pilonidal-cyst disorders that some doctors call them jeep disease. Cause: an infection of a congenital cyst at the base of a man's spine. Chief symptom: it hurts to sit down...