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While a student, he was stricken with a paralytic disease (doctors diagnosed it as poliomyelitis but Good thinks it was Guillain-Barré syndrome, which generally produces a less permanent form of paralysis); whatever it was, it left him partially paralyzed. Dropped from the class roster by professors who felt he would be unable to keep up his grades, he was restored only after he promised to withdraw voluntarily if his grades dropped below A. They never did. Through exercise, Good rehabilitated himself to the point where he has only
Bundy said he knew Ellsberg slightly while in Cambridge during the 1950's. He called Ellsberg "one of the most brilliant of students," but Judge Matt Byrne ordered the remark stricken as not responsive to the question...
Ranch one day last week and then donned his pajamas for an afternoon nap. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., stricken, he snatched up his bedroom telephone and gasped out one last order: "Send Mike immediately." Two Secret Service agents sprinted 100 yards to Johnson's bedroom and found him crumpled on the floor. His face was already blue from lack of oxygen, his right eye and cheekbone bruised from the fall. Too late, the agents attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, then tried external heart massage, then carried him to his private turboprop at the ranch landing field...
...hearing the Supreme Court read their pseudonyms into the annals of constitutional law. By a surprising majority of 7 to 2, the court ruled that Roe and Doe had won one of the nation's most fiercely fought legal battles. Thanks to the Texas waitress and the poverty-stricken Georgia housewife, every woman in the U.S. now has the same right to an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy as she has to any other minor surgery...
Thus did the old year end and the new year begin for a troubled island-with three cold-blooded murders that underlined a relatively recent, and particularly ugly, trend in the terrorism that has stricken Northern Ireland since 1969. Street riots and open battles have almost disappeared; sniping attacks on British soldiers have eased off; even bombings have diminished, though they still can have horrifying impact. Three days after Christmas, a bomb exploded in a car in the Republic of Ireland border town of Belturbet. The blast killed a girl, 16, who was passing by on a shopping errand...