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...American Skier Katy Rodolph, a point winner at Oslo in 1952, crashed into a tree in a practice meet, broke a vertebra in her neck and was lost to her team...
...National High School Federation looked back over its football season and reported a grim fact: six youngsters died as a result of injuries. Heads hitting against the ground, knees or helmets accounted for four fatal concussions; one player died of a fractured vertebra; the sixth died of a ruptured kidney. There was scant consolation in the discovery that the death rate of .90 per 100,000 players was the second lowest on record. Lowest: 1952, with...
...second, building up at a rate of 500 gs per second; 40 gs for 1/5 of a second, building up at 1,500 gs per second; 25 gs for one second; building up at 600 gs per second. * One of them: "Siberian Tiger Steak." Recipe: "Take a one-vertebra thickness of Tbone, rub with sodium glutamate, powdered ginger, powdered mustard, garlic, thyme and cumin seed before broiling...
Hemingway's African injuries were a ruptured kidney, bad burns, cracked skull, two compressed vertebrae and one vertebra cracked clear through. These were added to scars that cover perhaps half his body surface, including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take...
...left Denver Oct. 15, and his game had deteriorated. When his foursome teed off, Ike's drives were often wild, his putting sour. He was disgusted and threatened, like any Sunday duffer, to abandon the game forever. Montgomery used to be a golfer, but he injured a vertebra in a plane accident after the war, and has given up the sport. He followed the foursome in an electric scooter...