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Like most top swimmers, Bittick, Clark and Jastremski shave the hair from their legs just before a meet in the belief that it cuts down drag. "Maybe it's just psychological," says Bittick, "but you feel you are kind of slithering along." To slither better, Bittick also shaved the hair from his arms before his triple-crown performance. Clark's normal headdress is a close crew cut, but for the indoor championships he took a drastic trimming. He bounced out of the Yale pool with a shining, billiard-bald scalp. Actually, said
...concert opened with an extremely hushed and clean reading of Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal. The opera is, of course, neither Christian nor religious, but deserves hearing any time. Why then drag it out in Holy Week for "appropriateness"? This bow to the season even caused one Boston critic to express profound shock that the audience broke the "sacred" tone of the concert with applause. Myself, I applauded lustily...
...ambulance cases, who spend months or years or drag out their lives in mental hospitals, or (in some cases still not recognized often enough) land in the emergency rooms of general hospitals with
...last the firemen gave the all clear, but the first train in line had drained its batteries, and again the passengers waited until an engine could drag it away. In all, 80 trains had been delayed or stopped cold, and many of the passengers, suffering immobility for as long as eight hours, did not get home till long past 1 a.m. Clucked one New Canaan (Conn.) housewife who waited at the station for her husband: "Watching those men getting off the train was the closest thing to a death march I have ever seen...
...showed mock gruffness with student nurses who tied granny knots in scarflike slings. He was so tense as he scrubbed up to do a Caesarean operation that a nurse had to stand by his side and put the in evitable cigarette into his mouth for an occasional drag. He almost barked, "Take the baby away from me now!" as soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby...