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...unable to serve effectively for months. Yet Douglas, reports TIME Correspondent David Beck with, began to be convinced of that fact only late last month. Shortly after midnight on Oct. 27, Cathy Douglas touched the forehead of her sleeping husband and found it alarmingly hot with fever. Douglas was sped by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where doctors discovered that he had a urinary-tract infection. It was arrested, but physicians were shocked by the deterioration in Douglas' condition since he left the hospital last spring after a long convalescence from his stroke. An unusual nerve pain...
...Orient Express sped westward from Istanbul one September day in 1921, a tall, slender young classicist gazed thoughtfully out the window. "I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
...climax came at a board meeting in August, when the exasperated Noorda resigned as president and four of the seven board members in turn tried to kick out Goshorn and Yale. The zealous duo sped to a local court for an injunction against the board's action. At the next board session, Yale in a prayer asked his opponents to resign. Says Goshorn with a cherubic smile: "They probably thought Burt had flipped out." In fact, Noorda, four outside directors and six of the company's top ten salesmen-some of them Jews upset by the stress...
...midweek, a small white car sped past police headquarters in the Barcelona suburb of La Verneda just after midnight and sprayed the modern building with machine-gun fire. No one was injured. A few moments later, another white car approached the station. Trigger-happy police, believing the second car to be part of the assault, blazed away with their weapons, killing the auto's passengers-a couple and their son returning home from a wake. For reasons still unknown, the police inside the headquarters then fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second...
...gleaming new blue-and-white patrol cars, the Chicago police escorted Ford north out of the city. At one point his route paralleled the tracks of an elevated rapid transit line. To keep the platforms clear of people, the trains were ordered to stop between stations while he sped...