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...machine guns started raking the area from only 30 yds. away. Of the Americans, only York and seven privates survived. While the seven privates scrambled into the brush, York, still surrounded by some prostrate, ready-to-give-up Germans, crouched in the mud, quickly went to work with his Springfield...
...happy bedlam of chatting mothers and playful children at the Shriners Hospital in Springfield, Mass., last week seemed almost like a family reunion. Yet there was a difference: the children all used artificial limbs. They were at the hospital for a monthly checkup. The very cheerfulness of the gathering, however, illustrated the hope that new advances in orthopedics have brought to both handicapped children and their understandably concerned parents...
...years ago, children born with such deformities were allowed to reach full growth before any major corrective measures were taken, but now doctors at Shriners and a score of other pioneering hospitals are proceeding differently. Says Dr. Leon M. Kruger, 40, who heads the clinic for crippled children in Springfield: "As soon as a child feels an inclination to stand, we feel he is ready for prosthetics...
...infants are less inclined than adults to develop the "substitution pattern"-the unfortunate tendency in cripples to make do with a stump rather than to rely on an artificial arm or leg. Under the care of skilled therapists, infants spend an average 72 days as in-patients in the Springfield hospital, learning to use simple beginner prostheses-a hook for a hand, a short, thick stilt for a leg. Because they are naturally so eager to walk and to handle objects, infants usually accept the prostheses as parts of their own bodies...
...other guy" was on the road last week for his first major stump speech since the nomination, and he seemed to be pursuing the something's-wrong theme with some success. Barry Goldwater's forum was a bunting-draped platform at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, where a shirt-sleeved crowd of 12,000 turned out for "Republican Day." For 32 minutes, Goldwater spoke under a broiling sun. But he was cooled repeatedly by applause and chants of "Yea, Barry...