Word: tractioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good fortune obviously could not stay at that astronomical peak-and it didn't. Marichal won 22 games in 1964; he also spent weeks in traction with a pinched nerve in his back. Even that was a minor crisis compared with The Incident of 1965, when for the first time anyone can remember Juan Marichal lost his cool completely-thereby endangering another man's life and his own career...
Moon Walker's agility derives from its stainless-steel tubular legs, which have hinged, almost human knees, and flat, hooflike feet with rippled soles to give them traction. The legs operate in pairs, one leg of each pair supporting the walker's weight while the other leg is in motion. They are moved by battery-operated electric motors and controlled by a four-way lever that is so sensitive a multiple-amputee child can operate it with his chin...
...Bulletin, Miss Bieberman makes a correction in the peyote ex- traction process she had described in the previous issue. "If you did it the other way," she concludes, "you threw away the mescaline--we hope nobody did." Under the heading "The Movement," she announces lectures to be given by Alpert on the West Coast. His organization, which he describes as a "West Coast Nervous System," plans to open a Psychedelic Discotheque...
Back home in Miami, doctors finally diagnosed a slipped disk, put Pennel into traction, tried to persuade him to undergo a spinal fusion operation. He refused, and last summer he began competing again-shunning practice sessions as a pointless risk. To protect his spine from "jamming," he now lands flat on his back instead of on his feet, uses his elbows to soften the impact. How much longer he can keep on, Pennel does not know. One thing he does know: "I want that outdoor record back, and I'm going...
This week two subsidiaries of Brazilian Traction Light & Power Co. will sign a $40 million loan agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development as the first step in a fiveyear, $228 million program to double their service. The Inter-American Development Bank and ADELA (Atlantic Community Development Group for Latin America), a private, multinational investment group that has invested $12.7 million in Latin America, have just joined with Brazilian Millionaire...