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...Near Yongdong, Korea, Gerassimos ("Mike") Gigantes, 27, a Greek-born correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, the London Observer and Radio Athens, was ambushed in a jeep by North Korean machine gunners. Wounded in the hand and thigh, Gigantes (who used the byline "Philip Deane") was captured...
...Star game also brought grief to second-highest-paid Joe DiMaggio ($100,000). Trying to beat out a double play in the 14th inning, he wrenched a thigh muscle, was ordered to rest for a few days...
...field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also in a thigh, arm and ankle, somehow stumbled 50 yards to the plant and fell unconscious. A striker's bullet tumbled McGinnis into the rye, but he climbed to his feet, emptied a .38 at the embankment, and staggered to safety with wounds in his skull and in his neck...
...thrown away his shield for the sake of speed; and his mount, still fresh, bites at the rump of the other. But it is his weapons of offense that the fleeing man has dropped to lighten the load on his horse; the useless shield still hangs by his thigh. And his foundering horse, whose drooped crest, breaking pace and running nostrils show it in extremity, bears out with unmistakable pathos the difference between the fortunes of the riders...
Last week bright-eyed Freddie was at the institute again. Dr. Kessler had decided that his trunk muscles had developed enough for him to be fitted with his first pair of legs. Made of plastic, the legs are only thigh-length (usual for learners), and held to Freddie's body by a corset-like harness. The toes of the stumps point backward for better balance. A simple screw adjustment made by the nurse or mother makes the legs flex so that Freddie can sit down...