Word: vertebraed
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Defensive tackle Skip Sviokla is back after sitting out the Cornell game with a sprained ankle, and fellow tackle Dave Davis will play again this Saturday with a cracked vertebra. Bruised fullback Tom Choquette should be almost at full strength by the end of the week...
...four hours Neurosurgeon Paul Pitlyk and Orthopedist Kenneth Spence worked on the prone patient's cervical spine. They cut under the spinal cord, removed the tooth-shaped projection that hooks the second vertebra into the first just below the skull, and then deliberately fractured the two vertebrae...
...three hours before they got there because of all those vital parts in the way. The list of items that had to be delicately dissected and pulled aside reads like an atlas of anatomy. The surgeons had to fracture the top vertebra with a Hall air-driven drill, and then the seclusive clivus was exposed at last. They attacked this with an air drill, and cut a 1-in. by 2-in. window in the bone's sloping forward face. This exposed the tumor...
...fourth passenger, Malcolm D. Russell '66, of Dunster House, was injured, but is reported in fair condition at Massachusetts General Hospital. Russell, who suffered head bruises and a compressed fracture of the second vertebra, will be transfered to Stillman infirmary at the end of the week...
...Hock to Ride. "Luck is about 80% of bull riding," Wegner says, and he is luckier than most: he has only a smashed vertebra and a broken foot to show for 14 years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have...