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Students will not find themselves called upon to become wardens or stretcher bearers, because the student population changes too rapidly to permit adequate instruction. Medical and dental students, however, will be used in the Medical Service division, Keppler said...
...Women's Eastern Slalom championship, on her home course at Pico, she placed second. When she was 13, she knocked herself out for the whole season after the only bad accident of her skiing career: a leg broken* while she was dashing down the slopes to get a stretcher for an injured skier. She speaks of the accident now with the twangy taciturnity of a good Vermonter: "It wasn't much. A good skier's break...
...kept going. The platoon took Hill 333 on that sixth charge and this time they held. When reinforcements came up, they counted 83 Chinese dead strewn about the summit, estimated that another 200 had been wounded. Sergeant Lee, still conscious and in command, was carried down on a stretcher...
...visitor who stays longer than six months in Britain must pay full British income tax (in 1947 the rate was 45%, plus surtax on incomes over $8,000. At 10 a.m. on Dec. 2, after an anxious two-day delay, he had himself flown out of England on a stretcher. Wilkie thought he had beaten the tax collector, but Britain's revenue men grabbed him, demanded...
...morgue, the stretcher was being wheeled into the reception room when Leonard and Driver Jim Darling heard a gasp from under the sheets. Within eight minutes, Mrs. Butler was in an emergency hospital, wrapped in blankets. She was given plasma, and after 20 minutes she began to revive, with a pulse of 66. Within the hour, after more stimulants, her skin began to warm up. Mrs. Butler was really alive...