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...just as one lung or one kidney compensates for the loss of the other. What Dr. Smith finds most encouraging is that this process has gone so far in a patient so many years beyond childhood. While VA doctors concede that Coe's considerable recovery may be a fluke, they believe that hemispherectomy deserves further investigation; because, for patients with spreading brain cancers, it is the only alternative to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurosurgery: Life with Half a Brain | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Spanish Not Allowed. It was no fluke, either-as Marichal proved by winning his next two starts, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 and the Milwaukee Braves 3-2. By the end of that first, abbreviated big-league season, his record was 6-2. The boy from Laguna Verde obviously knew how to pitch in the big time: now all he had to do was learn how to live there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Dandy Dominican | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...problem tonight will be containment. Goalie Bill Fitzsimmons has let in some real fluke scores in recent games, and tonight, unlike last Saturday, every goal will be vital...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Aims for Upset Tonight; Injuries Cripple High-Ranked B.C. Six | 1/12/1966 | See Source »

...Paul Grobstein, and Keith Butchinson, scored a major upset topping Kirkland 47-42. Adams with a 3-2 record is demonstrating that it refuses to play its traditional role as pelay in the inter-House competitions. Their next meeting will show whether or not Adam's victory was a fluke...

Author: By Michael N. Garin, | Title: Eliot House Leads Close Race In Contest for Straus Trophy | 1/11/1966 | See Source »

...fluke goal with two-and-a-half minutes to play gave the Yale hockey team a squeaky 3-2 win over Harvard in the finals of the Nichols Tournament in Buffalo Saturday night. The Crimson icemen, in their second festival of the holiday season, defeated Princeton, 6 to 3, on New Year's Eve to set up the championship game...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Sextet Scares Toronto, Splits 2 Other Games | 1/3/1966 | See Source »

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