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...delectable Victorian miss sustained largely by fantasies about the 300 helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality of The Girl He Worships from Afar, is moved to confess: "I have often had a burning desire to nod." She, overcome by a rippling tendon in his forearm, is propelled into a swoony slow-motion ballet of plainly requitable passion...
Sutures for Tendons. Larsen spent weeks in a cast and a year on crutches. He needed more bone grafts before he could walk with a leg brace and go to work, standing all day at a bench, repairing ignition armatures. With no tendon attachments, he could not bend his ankle, and 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...
...right foot at the ankle joint. At Chung Shan Medical College Hospital No. 1 two hours later, Doctors Huang Cheng-ta and Li Pingheng, both 36, were faced with an extraordinary operation: the restoration of a foot attached to Liang's leg only by shreds of muscle, tendon and nerve. In the first report of their work to circulate outside Communist China, the two surgeons calmly spelled out their startling achievement...
Next, the doctors rejoined the posterior tibial artery; it was 51 hours after the injury that blood began to flow back into Liang's foot. The anterior tibial artery and three veins were quickly rejoined, muscles were sutured, the Achilles' tendon was repaired, nerves were retied, and a 130-sq. cm. skin graft was laid over the torn-up area around Liang's ankle. The entire operation lasted eight hours. The skin graft survived, and within two months the replaced foot was well enough to begin physiotherapy...
...Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, 79, in Chicago's Billings Hospital after a mild heart attack; Italian Foreign Minister and U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, 57, in Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital after he ruptured a quadriceps tendon in his right leg in a spill outside a friend's house; France's gossiping Existentialist Simonede Beauvoir, 57, fetched home by Old Comrade Jean-Paul Sartre to recover in Paris from badly bruised legs and chest after her car collided with a truck in Burgundy...