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Rushed to a hospital, Arias underwent two lengthy operations. Dame Margot went on with her show in England, took the curtain calls and then flew to Panama. At week's end, doctors were hopeful of saving Tito's life, but one bullet may have damaged his spinal cord, possibly paralyzing him from the neck down. And Jimènez? The word reaching frustrated police is that he is hiding out in the home of another political pal, one who has legislative immunity, and is thus quite beyond their reach...
...Hitler. "Chamberlain," he says, "hated Hitler and Fascism, but he felt that Europe in general and Britain in particular were in even greater danger from Communism." In wartime, Major Lord Home was invalided out of the Lanarkshire Yeo manry after only a few months' service, when he contracted spinal tuberculosis. The next two years were to be the crucial period of his life. In bed, encased in a plaster cast, the happy-go-lucky Etonian read deeply and widely, pored over Marx and Lenin in an attempt to understand Russia's long-range goals. (Harold Wilson admits that...
...racing career began on the day of Grover Cleveland's first inauguration, more than 78 years ago, and now Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American horse trainers, has decided to call it quits. Bent with spinal arthritis, he explained to friends and reporters at New York's Aqueduct race track that "I can't do things any more. People I should be hollering at, I walk right by them like they're not there...
Fortnight ago. Seaman Recruit Joseph Wilkowski reported to sick bay at the San Diego Naval Training Center. From his symptoms-including stiff neck and a rash-the medics decided they were up against meningitis, inflammation of the protective sheathing of the spinal cord and brain. And among the many microbes that can cause meningitis, they identified the cause of Wilkowski's illness as the meningococcus...
Though many people regularly carry meningococci in their throats without getting sick, no one knows why spinal or brain disease appears, especially in springtime, in an unpredictable pattern. Only one other man in Wilkowski's company got meningitis, but so did three others in companies widely scattered over the huge base. And one of these, James S. Hale, 22, of Osborne, Kans., fell victim to a furiously progressive form of the disease, reminiscent of the old-fashioned epidemics. It was 5:30 p.m. when Hale went to sick bay, and after a spinal tap he was rushed...