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Frontier Foothold. It was no ordinary Indian pueblo. Out of the dirt came objects that had been used by 16th century Spaniards: bits of chain mail, parts of a helmet, an iron cannon ball, a carved piece of bone, a bronze candlestick base and the cover of a copper vessel probably used in celebrating Mass. Further digging exposed the plan of the old plaza, including the tracks of two dogs that had run across it once, at a time when rain turned the soil...
Physician's Responsibility. But switching doctors, falsifying medical histories and feigning concern cannot change a child's X rays. Says the Kempe report: "To the informed physician, the bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell." Since child beating is almost always repeated, X-ray signs of fractures in different stages of healing are almost always a strong indication of parent-inflicted injuries. "The radiologic features are so distinct." say the Colorado doctors, "that other diseases generally are considered only because of the reluctance to accept the implications of the bony lesions...
Stripped to the Bone. The Weatherly that Mosbacher piloted last week was not the same sluggish boat that wound up ahead of only hapless Easterner in 1958. Her stern overhang had been lopped off; she had a new, flatter keel that was designed to point her mast higher (to take advantage of steadier breezes that blow well above the water), make her faster beating to windward. Racing boats are like racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened...
Brutal Beating. Hours later, he was in Monaco's Princess Grace hospital having the bone set by a French surgeon, Dr. Charles Chatelain, and his leg encased in a plaster cast. The doctor said that the operation "went very well," and hospital authorities said his constitution is "remarkable-quite Churchillian." A later report had it that the patient was "quite comfortable, but a bit crotchety." Churchill dined on cold chicken, then smoked a fat cigar with his habitual glass of brandy...
...Churchill walked away from a plane crash at London's Croydon airport. At 48, he surrendered his appendix to a surgeon's knife and, nine years later in the U.S., lost a decision to a Manhattan taxicab, which knocked him down and broke some Churchillian bones. Since his 70th birthday, the ailments have come thick and fast: a hernia operation in 1947, a stroke in 1953 and, two years ago, a broken bone in his back from a fall in his London home. On that occasion, Churchill celebrated his 86th birthday with cigars and-in place of brandy...