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...voiced British actor often cast in the role of a steadfast military man (Bridge on the River Kwai) or a true-blue police inspector (Gideon of Scotland Yard); following a long battle with throat cancer; in London. In 1966 Hawkins lost his larynx to cancer. Last April, hoping to regain his full voice, he volunteered to undergo an experimental procedure in Manhattan for the surgical implantation of an artificial voice-box, but his throat never healed...
...Alejandro Lanusse. Then Perón embraced the three new chiefs of the armed forces, receiving from them a pledge not to interfere with his running of the country in return for his pledge to rule within the constitution. The military even agreed to allow Perón to regain his old rank of lieutenant general. It had been stripped from the ex-dictator in absentia by a military tribunal in 1955 on the charge of "serious shortcomings incompatible with the honor of the army...
...John Wesley Dean III, who observed and participated in the worst of the Administration's illegality and misconduct. The words of Dean, the fired presidential counsel, may well determine whether the President will emerge from the Watergate tragedy totally crushed, severely crippled, or with a solid chance to regain some of his lost strength...
...thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail and right wing. There was a flash of fire, and the plane fell apart. All six crewmen were killed, as well as seven residents of the village of Goussainville, where...
...Administration tennis team, "Bok's Jox," in a desperate attempt to regain its honor after three straight losses to The Crimson, will meet the Radcliffe tennis team this Monday...