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...chances were that neither Keane nor Houk could revive these Yankees. Old age had destroyed their skills. Slugger Mickey Mantle, at 34 and in his 16th season, was playing with his shaky legs encased in tape; his right shoulder was still sore after an operation for a bone chip, and he had yet to hit his first home run. Roger Maris, 31, the second half of the M. & M. twins who tore the league apart a few years ago, sat out 116 games last year because of injuries. He seems healthy enough now, but his batting average is a minuscule...
...contrast with the recent practice of amputating above the knee, the Burgess team operated as far below the joint as possible, while still avoiding infected bone. After dressing the sutured stump to stanch bleeding, the surgeons used an elastic bandage soaked with plaster of paris to mold a cast around the stump and up Myers' thigh. Into the cast they built an aluminum socket, ready for insertion of a temporary aluminum column of adjustable length...
...fact took off for a tumultuous visit to Mexico City in order to demonstrate his detachment-Washington was taking no chances. In a carefully worded, 15-page "working paper," White House and State Department experts listed a number of possibilities ranging in outlook from high optimism to bone-deep pessimism. The least acceptable contingency was the prospect of a neutralist regime in Saigon that would either demand outright U.S. withdrawal or impose such humiliating restrictions as to make a pullout unavoidable...
...After escaping, Betancourt made his way by foot, train and car or truck to two towns outside Havana, seeking refuge at several farms. Some peasants took him in; others went to the police. After his brother Luis went into Havana to seek a hiding place for the escapee, a bone-weary Betancourt finally slipped back into the city and took refuge in the San Francisco church and convent. There two Franciscan friars agreed, the government charged later, "to hide him, in order later to take him clandestinely out of the country." But government snoopers had got word that Betancourt might...
...Author Lucius Beebe left the bulk of his $2,000,000 estate to Old Friend Charles Clegg, with whom he shared ownership of mansions in Virginia City and Hillsborough, Calif. But, true to his fashion, Beebe also set aside $15,000 in trust for a favorite companion: T-Bone Towser II, his five-year-old St. Bernard. The funds may come in handy for Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe keg (in case anyone wants to stir up a stinger...