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...medical description of Mantle's injury was "an undisplaced, slightly oblique fracture of the third metatarsal neck"-in plain English, a broken bone in his left foot. It happened in the sixth inning of the second game, when Baltimore's Brooks Robinson lofted a home run over Memorial Stadium's center-field fence and Mantle leaped high into the air in a futile attempt to spear the ball. On the way down, Mantle caught his spikes in the steel-mesh fence and crumpled to the ground. Teammates found him prodding his swelling foot. "It's broke...
...sightseeing. He was kept busy day after day at the hospital. There were two native orthopedic surgeons to train and a ward teeming with patients, many of them mangled victims of Viet Nam's guerrilla war. The cases, Dr. Grain says, were fairly routine-muscle and nerve operations, bone grafts and other reconstructive procedures. But not the conditions. Flypaper hung over the operating table, amebic dysentery was rampant, and blood for transfusions was in short supply. The thousand-bed hospital was so crowded that sometimes two beds were pushed together to accommodate three or four patients. Americans in Saigon...
...great Cannon cross is the U.S. Senate, which he accuses of larding great gobs of cash onto spending bills that the House has cut to the bone. Last year Cannon propelled a resolution through his committee that charged the Senate with profligacy, noting that in the past ten years Senators had restored $22 billion previously slashed by the House. Virginia's Democratic Senator Willis Robertson, no great spender himself, called the resolution "the most insulting document that one body has ever sent to another." As he recalls that uproar, Clarence Cannon's face still fractures itself...
...desert. For the best milk, he explains, "we feed camels on sea mangrove and dried fish. This gives the milk a slightly fishy freshness we appreciate." Shakhbut once owned a Cadillac, but when it finally broke down he just abandoned it. Now he makes his state visits in a bone-jarring Land-Rover, but without enthusiasm. "I did all my traveling by camel in the old days," he sighs, "but now I have to go by car because if the ruler went by camel, people would think it peculiar...
...conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are embedded. Taken out are layers of skin, muscle and bone, and this creates a window near the center of the chest...