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Hamlin, hampered by an inflamed Achilles tendon, was running third at the two-mile mark, when a stitch forced him to drop out of the race. As Crimson hopes plummeted--for a victory without Hamlin was impossible--Hamlin recovered and set out after the pack. He eventually finished seventh, in a courageous effort...
...Lions, Marlon Brando spilled a pot of hot tea in his lap, developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator Kirk Douglas was leveled by a virus maximus...
...never started a game in one freshman season and two varsity years, was elected captain of the 1961 football team yesterday. Hart, of Winthrop House and Lancaster, Ohio, was regarded as the leading and of the team in pre-season practice before an injury to a tendon in his left hand sidelined him until late October...
...practice all last week has let up enough so that he can work out. Jed Fitsgerald's leg is better than it was before the Yale meet, and all the other runners are in perfect shape, except for Fred Howard, who is suffering from a tender Achilles tendon...
Many people who complain of whiplash, reports Dr. Threadgill. "do not have anything more than a temporary indisposition. They have no real injury to muscle, nerve, tendon or bone." In examination of 88 supposed whiplash victims, Threadgill found only 14 cases in which patients' subjective complaints (e.g., neck pains, headaches, loss of sensation, restricted arm movements') could be medically confirmed. His sardonic conclusion: apart from clear-cut cases of bone or nerve in jury, 90% of "socalled whiplash injuries" will disappear within six weeks "if legal settlement can be quickly obtained...