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Actually, doctors explained by way of quashing the rumors, the President was undergoing a normal convalescence. Many Americans-including Johnson-expected that he would return sooner to his hyperactive ways. Yet most gall-bladder patients take about three months to regain their strength completely, as distinct from the ability to walk normally, climb stairs, and take routine exercise-all of which Johnson has been doing...
...lieutenant colonel after eight years-was assigned to the Pusan perimeter, where he moved into position as a reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle: "The world was coming apart. Our company commander had been killed. There was heavy...
...sent streaming westward in an apocalyptic migration that took 2,000,000 lives. Some 8,000,000 "expellees" remain in West Germany today, and though many have lost much of their fierce irredentist zeal, their presence is a constant reminder to the German government of the need to regain the lost territories and thus reaffirm the hereditary German Heimatsrecht...
...suffered severe head injuries in an automobile accident, and had undergone three brain operations plus extended treatment in a hospital, was sent to Whitaker on the theory that he would soon die and needed only minimal care until he did. Though the boy had failed to regain consciousness for six weeks, the staff at Issaquah immediately took special interest in him. He got all the standard medication for someone in his condition. But beyond that, staff and family were instructed to talk in his room as if he could hear them. Daily, remarks and greetings were directed at him. Some...
Yale plays the same kind of game that Brown does, with long passes and rough today contact. But Yale will not have the advantage of a wet field, and Harvard's short-passing game should regain the crispness it showed against Dartmouth and Princeton...