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Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
...triplets. In the A.M.A. Journal, three Navy doctors said they used the electroencephalograph (brainwave machine), pasted leads to the women's abdomens, got recordings of electrical impulses that indicated the number of fetal hearts. The method, they noted, is far safer (for both mother and children) than X rays. Source of the data: servicemen's wives at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth...
...labor criticism of Blue Cross fails to point out all the present inadequacies of the organization. Drugs and X-rays, if used for diagnosis, are not covered. Tuberculosis, mental illness, and old age are also outside the program. In Maddix's view, until everyone can pay for medical bills from "out of his pocket," there will be room for health insurance expansion...
...observers on the ground, elaborate preparations went to naught. Crowds that gathered on North Shore beaches saw only a dramatic blackening of the clouded sky. The heavy mist and cloud cover effectively blocked the view of the moon's transit, making smoked glasses and exposed x-ray film completely useless...
...dusk fell over London's White City Stadium last June 10, Harvard's Joel Landau stood at the starting line for the 4 X 110 relay with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...