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...woman, who demanded: "Are you Mr. King?" King nodded: "Yes, I am." Then Georgia-born Izola Ware Curry, 42, who had lived in New York City on and off for half her life, suddenly flashed a steel letter opener and stabbed King in the upper left side of his chest. Customers shouted in panic, and a few onlookers grabbed the deranged woman and held her for police as she babbled incoherently and shouted: "I'm glad I done it." In her brassiere police found a small loaded pistol...
King, still conscious and calm, was rushed to the Harlem Hospital with the letter opener still in his chest, was soon followed by a score or so of well-wishers and Negro leaders. Also present: fleet-footed Governor Averell Harriman, who was campaigning for re-election in the city when he heard the news. Two and a quarter hours after King was taken to the operating room, a surgeon announced that the blade, narrowly missing the critical aorta near the heart, had been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders...
...Operation. A sturdy, calm, active man, Fowles began to feel sick in November 1955. Symptoms: chest pains, short breath, chills and fever. His doctors diagnosed gallstones. Surgeons removed the stones at an Ogden hospital-but also found a spreading cancer in the liver. A postoperative tissue study confirmed the fact; Fowles had metastases throughout his liver and bile ducts from a primary malignancy of the pancreas. Patient Fowles was given no more than 90 days to live. His wife and four children were informed; he was told only that his gallstones had been successfully removed...
...Boyd, 55, had made Sceptre too rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared to 56,800 for Columbia. While Columbia's bow knifes through waves at the waterline, Sceptre bashes them with her barrel chest. Even British Helmsman Graham Mann guardedly admitted: "If she has a bias, it's toward the heavy side...
...Ford cars, Ford could not afford to stand idle while competitors were producing. But the U.A.W. could not long afford a joint showdown by the Big Three. The union might be faced with $12 million a week in benefits to jobless members, would soon exhaust its $40 million war chest...