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...incisional hernia such as the one from which President Johnson is now suffering is a rupture (Latin: hernia) or break in the muscular abdominal wallIn the President's case, the break came about an inch to the right of the scar where the surgeons cut last year to remove his gall bladder. It is at the point where plastic drain tubes were left in place for four days after that operation. Such hernias are by no means rare but no one knows exactly how common they...
...light fixture over each operating table and connected with the teaching and seminar rooms. Watching with the aid of television's magnifying eye, an unlimited number of students will be able to follow each operation in minutest detail, even in an operating area only an eighth of an inch across...
Their act, honed to within an inch of everybody's life, is among other things a pigeonholer's nightmare, swooping from low burlesque to high camp, from keen wit to Raggedy Ann clowning, from one-line gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone...
...hard against the rock ceiling. Now both my arms were stretched straight in front of me, my legs straight back. The only way to get moving again in that tight space was to push myself with my boot toes, lifting myself off the ground with my elbows, gaining an inch or two each time. It was 50 feet that way. And most of the cave was still to come...
...rescued from the men's room before each performance. On the day of the finals, he arose from a practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge protruding from a wall and collapsed against the Steinway. Revived, he refused a bandage for the one-inch gash in his forehead and, bloody but unbowed, trudged off to play with a driving intensity and the pyrotechnical flair of a young Horowitz...