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...into the pool. That year four of Counsilman's swimmers made the 17-man U.S. Olympic team, won three gold medals, one silver, one bronze. Members of the present Indiana squad hold world records for the medley relay, individual medley (Ted Stickels), backstroke (Tom Stock) and breast stroke (Chet Jastremski...
...French chefs published in France by Flammarion and known there simply as "Le Flammarion." It has bold recipes, going some distance toward explaining why all the outstanding chefs in history have been men. "Choke a fleshy young duckling to death," begins one, "and immediately pluck the feathers from the breast so the blood will rush...
...study of the camera's potential for diagnosis, Dr. Gershon-Cohen took almost 1,000 thermograms of breast lesions alone, also photographed suspected appendicitis cases and arterial disorders. The breast thermograms often aided a more definite diagnosis...
Picture of Illness. There was no way of telling from examination of one typical subject if the lump in her left breast was benign or malignant. But the thermogram left little doubt. The picture of the left breast came out lighter than normal; the temperature was about 3° higher than in the other breast. Surgery proved that the lump was cancer. A thermogram of another patient, a 68-year-old man with arteriosclerosis, showed his right leg black from the knee down. Its temperature was below normal. The patient had a blocked artery, was dangerously close to gangrene...
Additional diagnosis is usually required to determine the exact cause of the hot spots and cold spots discovered by thermography. But the new procedure, says Dr. Gershon-Cohen, "holds much promise as another, ancillary approach to more accurate diagnosis of diseases of the breast, particularly carcinoma." The camera is already "valuable in differentiating benign from malignant lesions...