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...Traction for Trucks. This assures the Communists of access to the Mekong and, most important, provides security for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Although ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops, with U.S. air support, inflicted considerable damage during the Lam Son 719 thrust into Laos and made parts of the trail unusable, the Communists reacted by simply moving the key supply network westward and widening it in the bargain. Thus, in recent weeks, Communist activity along the trail has been running at twice the normal rate. U.S. aerial reconnaissance has revealed piles of bamboo and mounds...
Compression fractures are often accompanied by ruptured spinal discs and torn muscles. Victims may spend as long as five months in a torso cast or in traction. Some face a lifetime of continuing pain or disability...
...Navy during World War II, Eames developed a traction splint-a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...
...sort of description she and her sisters despise, for the movement rejects the notion of leaders and heroines as creations of the media?and mimicry of the ways that men use to organize their world. Despite the fact that it is essentially a polemic suspended awkwardly in academic traction, Sexual Politics so far has sold more than 15,000 copies and is in its fourth printing...
...Navy during World War II. Eames developed a traction splint- a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company called "America's most famous chair"- two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames tamily is the black leather-upholstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Fames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...