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...satellite's second purpose was to help determine the effects of outer-space radiation on future astronauts. Inside the recovered capsule were human bone marrow, blood cells and tissue from the underside of a human eyelid, as well as fungus spores and algae. After analysis, the results will be compared with similar materials which were recovered from Discoverer XVII, when it was snatched in mid-air last month...
...86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast...
...Foreign Medical Graduates. Its job: to set standards for foreign-trained doctors, administer qualifying tests. To win permission to work in a U.S. hospital, a candidate must score 75% or better on the Educational Council exam. If he scores 70% to 74%, he can stay in the U.S., bone up to take the exams again...
...foot and take off in the opposite direction. When frustrated tacklers finally do catch up with him, Arnett knows how to take his lumps. "If I hit the ground tensely, rigidly, and two tons of angry linemen landed on top of me, they'd break every bone in my body...
...Winston Churchill, 85, half-American but the most English of Englishmen, again seemed indestructible. He took a spill in the bedroom of his London home, broke a small bone in his back. Doctors consigned him to bed for a few weeks, said that the injury was not serious. Another bulletin was issued by his daughter, Mary Soames, who reported: "Sir Winston is bored." But the medics were clearly worried by his slow mending and "disturbed" nights...