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...team of eight doctors operated on Stennis at Walter Reed for more than six hours, working primarily to repair the damage of one bullet that penetrated his stomach, pancreas and colon. They feared bacterial infection from the colon and harm from digestive enzymes flowing from the open pancreas into the abdominal cavity. The other bullet caused only a flesh wound in his left thigh. While his condition remained "very serious" and the prognosis for recovery was described as "guarded," his good physical condition from years of exercise, nonsmoking and almost no drinking was a factor in his favor...
That was only the beginning. Phillip Rafferty, a Catholic youth of 14, disappeared while on his way from home to a band practice; his body, with bullet wounds in the head, was later found five miles out of Belfast. Another Catholic, Gabriel Savage, 17, was pulled from his girl friend's arms at a shopping center and driven off to his death. Paddy Heenan, 50, was on a bus destroyed by a grenade as it drove through a mixed neighborhood. Two gunmen entered a paint store, lined up the employees, singled out James Greer, 21, a Protestant, and shot...
...cease-fire has been bullet-riddled, and the U.S. withdrawal was far from complete last week. But there was one sure sign of vanishing American involvement: the daily military press briefing, an eight-year-old Saigon spectacle known as the 5 O'Clock Follies, had its final performance with an American cast. Army Major Jere Forbus, the last Follies star, sighed, "Well, we may not have been perfect, but we outlasted Fiddler on the Roof." The Associated Press Saigon bureau chief, Richard Pyle, was less benign but more accurate when he called the briefings "the longest-playing tragicomedy...
...time at both ends of the floor." That means everything: blocking shots, skidding headlong across the hardwood in a scramble for the ball, leading fast breaks and rifling jump passes half the length of the court. "All he does is run. run. run." panted the Baltimore Bullets' Elvin Hayes after Cowens victimized him in a recent game by raking in 29 rebounds. "Many centers pick their spots to perform," says Bullet Coach Gene Shue. "Cowens hustles constantly He's the best big hustler in the league...
...could play good guys too, as when he portrayed the foe of venereal disease in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, or when he made a stage comeback in his 60s as the gentle, sad widower in Middle of the Night...