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...Philadelphian has an impressive receiver corps to work with. Tight end Lal Heneghan has 17 catches and fullback Chuck Nolan 10. Senior split end Karl Hall specializes in the bomb. He has only nine receptions this fall, but he scored touchdowns on four of them and averages 27.2 yards per catch. McGeehan's favorite target, however, may not play: wide receiver Rich Syrek suffered a knee injury two weeks ago, missed last Saturday's game and is questionable for today...
DIED. Thomas S. Gates, 76, a patrician Philadelphian who, as Secretary of Defense in the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, overhauled Pentagon management procedures, helping prepare the way for modern weapons and tactics, and authorized the ill-fated U-2 spy-plane flight of Francis Gary Powers; after a long illness; in Philadelphia. A banker by profession, Gates was president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. from 1962 to 1965 and chief of the U.S. mission in Peking...
...revenues and mixed reviews. After a moment, he turned to his fans, raising his fists and becoming Rocky for an instant, as if he were slipping into another skin. "You can break that statue into a million pieces, and you'd find a piece of it in every Philadelphian," he cried. "It belongs...
...masses of black suits and gloomy tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed Philadelphian taste a century ago; The Agnew Clinic was rejected from the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition in 1891 because it depicted a mastectomy for cancer and was "not cheerful for ladies to look at," an understatement of the first order...
...medical test results. The three other ex-Congressmen were each given $20,000 fines, and multiple prison terms to be served concurrently. New York's John Murphy, 55, received a three-year and two two-year terms. Michael Myers, 38, was given three three-year terms, and fellow Philadelphian Raymond Lederer, 43, racked up three terms of three years and another of two years...