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...process is one of the many which doctors only inadequately understand. This hiatus in medical learning became a pressing problem to three surgeons at the University of California Medical School; they had a patient whose swallowing mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about their problem...
...Moseley stood out in the Crimson win, leading the scoring with two goals. Early in the second period Moseley shot from behind the goal and a Williams defenseman deflected the puck into the cage. In the third period Moseley took a pass from center Myles Huntington and scored on bullet shot...
...resonant chanting of priests was intermittently drowned out by the wailing of black-shawled women. Some of the dead, laid out in open clapboard coffins, had ears hacked off, eyes gouged out. In the ruined hospital, strewn among wrecked operating tables and X-ray machines, were blood-soaked and bullet-riddled mattresses-proof that the sick and wounded had been shot...
...Ambos Mundos one night last week, General Jesús H. Alva sat stroking his huge mustache. He was reminiscing about the old days when he was one of Pancho Villa's Dorados ("golden" shock troops). As he talked, the 70-year-old general played with a wooden bullet. "Son," he said to a bystander, "they sent us these, thinking that we wouldn't be able to fight with them. That trick could not stop the Dorados...
...General Alva lost consciousness, his left hand opened and the wooden bullet rolled slowly into a dusty corner. The next morning he died...