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...Roosevelt Hospital. In a five-hour operation, surgeons removed the most damaging bullet, which had lodged in Colombo's cerebellum. Placed under intensive care, Colombo failed to regain consciousness, and despite the resurgence of some vital signs, was given only a fifty-fifty chance to live. Still, a less robust man might have never made it to the operating table. Said one doctor: "He's tough as hell...
...Congress Party were returned to power last March with a two-thirds majority in Parliament, she promised an ambitious development program that would change the lives of India's almost 600 million people. By last week, however, it was clear that the country's economy, never robust, was bogging down for reasons that are not of Mrs. Gandhi's making. More than 6,000,000 refugees have fled to India since the Pakistani government, based in West Pakistan, began a savage campaign of repression and terror in East Pakistan last March. The cost of feeding and sheltering...
...Chief Justice is a daily practitioner of the restraint he urges on others. There are robust arguments among the Justices of the Supreme Court and sharp disagreements that seem to defy reconciliation. But underlying the differences is an atmosphere of cordiality that is rooted in mutual respect. It enables Burger and William O. Douglas-poles apart philosophically-to remain close friends even though they are infrequent judicial allies. It is that kind of civility that Warren Burger counsels for the nation...
Wine lovers have long cultivated their own peculiar vocabulary. A vintage can be "flinty," "robust" or even "amusingly presumptuous." Never, however, has a wine been discussed in terms of its lemon, lime or coconut flavor. Never, that is, until now. Flavored "pop" wines have arrived and are showing up on liquor-store shelves in ever-increasing numbers and varieties...
...diction (and the French accents affected were appallingly heterodox) became suddenly irrelevant. Moments of total excitement such as these are rare in theater. I am sure that tonight's performance of The Days of the Commune will measure up, on the whole, as a success-if only for this robust fusion of music and dramatic spectacle. In Sanders, the slide-show of period engravings and photographs should make the mise en scene more convincing-and, with a little more coordination of scene changes, less awkward. In any event, Brecht, Eisler, Lehrman and his company merit the whole University's attention...