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...keep their German shepherds mean, hungry and on the alert for escapees, East German police at the Berlin Wall feed the guard dogs just once every 48 hours. The only trouble with such severe rationing is that the dogs themselves often develop a hankering for a bigger bone in the West. In the past year, at least three have slipped the leash to swim or dash into West Berlin...
...neurosurgical associates at the university had tried parts of such an operation on 33 cadavers. They found that while nerves, blood vessels and other soft structures were difficult enough to cut through, the worst obstacle was an important but little-known bone, the clivus, which balances on the very top of the spinal column to form a pivot for the skull. There was only one way to get past the clivus, and that was to cut a window in it. To make this possible, a whole trayful of special instruments had to be designed and built. Those instruments were ready...
...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...
...Mount Kennedy, the mountaineer peered red-eyed through a three-day growth of beard, stripped to the waist in the - 10° cold, gave himself a rubdown with the contents of a cup of hot water. Then he settled down to a dinner of chicken soup, T-bone steak, instant mashed potatoes with butter, Madeira wine, vanilla ice cream and coffee. Shortly thereafter, New York's Democratic Senator Bobby Kennedy crawled into his sleeping bag for a nine-hour snooze...
Chips & Splints. This year's casualties beat all. First there was Mary Hecht's Sadair, which won more money ($498,217) last year than any two-year-old in history; two months ago in Florida, Sadair cracked a bone in his foot. Then there was Bold Lad, brightest star in Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Wheatley Stable, the top money-winning stable in the U.S. ($1,073,572 in 1964). A son of Bold Ruler, "the fastest horse in the world up to nine furlongs," Bold Lad seemed like a chip off the old block when...