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...Kent State. When during the takeover of University Hall in 1969, "(i)n the reception room of Dean Glimp's office, a girl stood with blood trickling down from a cut in the center of her forehead. A state trooper stepped up...and steadied her chin with his thumb. The tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over his head, and brought..the club crashing down on the girl's head. The force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from the floor; the girl screamed and blood cascaded onto Dean...
...Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash to complete jaw displacements. Trumpeters get neck hernias and muscle tears around their mouths. Bagpipers are prone to lung infections from fungus that grows inside the bag. Clarinetists develop thumb problems, because the 28-oz. horn is supported only by a hook on the finger. "It's a vicious instrument," declares one physician...
Salvucci's plan would also turn part of Route 2 into an eight-lane highway. Cyr called this "putting high-speed lanes back into the city, something that runs contrary to Boston's rule of thumb." He said Boston follows a general policy of keeping highways on its periphery...
...downhill and slalom) and the / super-G (a compressed, curvier downhill). Walliser managed a bronze in the combined and Figini a silver in the super-G, but interest swung to their teammate Brigitte Oertli (two silvers) and to Canada's new hope, Karen Percy. Skiing with a broken left thumb, she took a bronze in the downhill, scraped out a fourth in the combined with her left pole flopping uselessly behind her as she ran the slalom, then took another bronze in the super...
...former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who was appointed special prosecutor in May 1986. After the verdict, Seymour, himself a Republican, lashed out at the Reagan Administration for its lack of ethical leadership. Without such a guiding example, he said, the best that special prosecutors can do is "put a thumb in the dike...