Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Illinois' paper ballots will be about the size of a bed sheet, the situation strongly favors straight-ticket voting, and it is conceivable that the winning party will send to Springfield its entire slate of candidates. Percy wanted the Republican slate to be a clean one -which meant, at the very least, purging the West Side Blocmen. And at a state G.O.P. convention in June, he all but read the undesirables out of the party. Rarely have such howls been heard. "You may be dynamic, Mr. Percy," cried one purgee, "but you'd better learn...
...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...