Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smaller anterior tibial artery had lost only 1½ inches. By taking out splintered bone and shortening the leg slightly, the surgeons were able to pull the two ends of the artery together. Then they drilled through the bone above and below the fracture and inserted four stainless-steel pins; they held the projecting ends of the pins together with steel bars and surgical screws. With everything firmly in place, Dr. Byers and his assistant finished the delicate task of repairing the tiny artery, only 1/12 in. in diameter...
...although he got along for two more years with a gimpy gait, Dr. Byers was not satisfied. Last December he got Larsen back into the hospital, where orthopedists freed three major tendons from masses of scar tissue both above and below the old break, and joined them with steel sutures...
Decisive End. "If Alkan had to perform his works in public, I'm sure he would have been kinder to himself," says Lewenthal, whose impulsive, steel-wristed style of playing is just right for Alkan. For him the concert stage is an arena, his mission "to slay the black dragon with the 88 gleaming teeth." To create the "proper atmosphere," he has the lights dimmed until he is little more than a silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful...
...Steel reported record sales of $4.5 billion, up 8.1%, while earnings rose 16.3% to $275 million...
...GERMANY, in the third big steel merger since 1964, two Dortmund steel firms, Hoesch A.G. and Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion A.G., merged last month, and plan to work closely with The Netherlands' Hoogovens steel firm. The two major Hamburg shipyards, the government-owned Howaldtwerke and the privately owned H. C. Stülcken Sohn, and Siemens, the electrical-equipment makers, have agreed on a merger that may include a fourth firm; the new group would have a shipbuilding capacity of 300,000 tons annually...