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...high winds and tides, the great surge of water spills over the embankments of the Thames River and sweeps across dozens of square miles of London, endangering countless thousands of people. More than a quarter of a million homes, offices and factories in such low-lying areas as Westminster, Hammersmith, Lambeth and Southwark are inundated. In the streets, thousands of cars are left stranded. In central London, the underground is paralyzed, bridges and tunnels are closed. Hospitals struggle valiantly to maintain services, their task made all the more difficult by power blackouts, loss of telephone service, contamination of the water...
Tracing McIlroy's hospital visits was obviously a labor of love for Neurologist C.A. Pallis of Hammersmith Hospital and Rheumatologist A.N. Bamji of Middlesex Hospital. In their report to the British Medical Journal, they meticulously listed the 22 surnames and eight first names used in various combinations by Mcllroy in registering at different hospitals. (Mcllroy was identified by the description in clinical records of his scars and other physical characteristics.) The names of all the hospitals and the number of admittances to each were also faithfully recorded...
Late in the fourth quarter Yale center Matt Dolan blocked a Flach punt in the endzone and Mark Hammersmith fell on the ball for the final tally of the game...
...wasn't bad. But Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Onassis' mother, was especially impressed with the plans of Edward Sughrue, an attorney from Whitinsville, Mass., and eight business partners to turn the family estate in Newport, R.I., into a Kennedy museum. After all, the greatest days at Hammersmith Farm were when the Honey Fitz tied up at the dock or the presidential helicopter settled on the lawns. An Irishman who cast his first vote ever for J.F.K., Sughrue plans to open the house to tourists next spring and charge admission. Visitors will see Hammersmith just as it was furnished...
...spoilsports tried to dampen the Jubilee spirits-with scant success. Dustmen in Hammersmith, who had originally demanded $58 in extra pay to clean up post-Jubilee litter, eventually settled for $17. The Socialist Workers Party managed to sell some badges urging STUFF THE JUBILEE, and the Movement Against a Monarchy claimed great success in its sale of auto bumper stickers proclaiming ROT ALL RULERS. But an anti-Jubilee rally in London attracted a grand audience of eight...