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...throbbing of the brain to the beat of the heart, the coursing of blood through a maze of vessels, the dance of molecules in a working muscle, the stealthy growth of a tumor. For generations doctors have hunted for ways to see through skin and bone and into the whirring processes of life. The discovery of the X ray in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen opened the first window into the living body and inaugurated a new age in medicine. But anyone who has ever glanced at an X-ray film can perceive its Limitations. The picture gives little sense...
...Boutilier, whose play Delancy Smith felt kept us in the game" controlled the ball against the Big Red press. Senior Kate Martin and Co-Captain Frenesa Hall helped out. Martin and Boutilier have been seeing more playing time since Co-Captain Pat Horne pulled up lame with a heel bone hairline fracture...
...left foot, the one made of bone china, that left him out of virtually all of the past four seasons, has been rebuilt. "Just being able to walk around is great," Walton rejoices. "To go outside and throw a football with my kids [four sons], to hit a tennis ball. Then, to top it all off, to play in the N.B.A. again." He started back this season playing first once, and then twice weekly for the San Diego Clippers, who won only 17 of 82 National Basketball Association games last year and welcomed even part-time help. The rest...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...
Dorothy Ridgway was nine in 1960 when wire services reported that she was dying of a rare bone disease and that her only wish was for Christmas cards: a kindly world sent 600,000 of them within weeks. This year Parade, the ubiquitous (circ. 22 million) Sunday newspaper supplement, decided to visit Dorothy, now 31 and alive after all. The portrait in the Dec. 19 issue was vivid down to the last teardrop: Freelance Writer Dotson Rader found Dorothy, stunted and virtually housebound, living with her parents in Roanoke, Va., sustained by memories, dreams and a disability check...