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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese here were showing an emotional side that few Americans have ever seen. They were full of hatred. "Vietnamese soldiers and Vietnamese people hate the Americans so much," said Cao Van Tarn, 24, a private who arrived from Hue with his legs and one arm riddled with shrapnel. "The Americans have left us without notice, without...
...Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the stroke he suffered last New Year's Eve, iron-willed and gallant Justice William O. Douglas, 76, was frequently more optimistic about his progress than his doctors. Medical experts questioned whether he would regain use of his left leg and arm, paralyzed by the stroke (TIME, Feb. 17). Doctors were also reportedly disturbed by his mental as well as physical state. Douglas objected to a psychoneurological examination and complained about plots to kill him or remove him from the bench. Last week, six days after his return to the court, he showed...
Douglas looked thin and frail; his left arm hung useless. The old vigor was not there: his eyes at times seemed glassy, fixed in another realm; his voice was thin, almost inaudible, and he occasionally stuttered. Asked if he had left Walter Reed without his doctors' permission, the Justice sat silent. (Douglas had obtained an overnight pass, then refused to check back into the hospital...
...reinforce that claim, Douglas is making an unusual number of requests to the court that more cases be heard. A statement that Douglas released through the Supreme Court's press office implied that the paralysis in his left arm resulted from "striking a wall when I fell ill Dec. 31." Chief Justice Warren Burger was so disturbed by that kind of inaccuracy that he ordered quotation marks to be placed on the statement lest the words seem to have the imprimatur of the court...
Pain is also having a thumb almost wrenched out in rodeo competition. His bandaged fist parries the air, occasionally landing a light jab on the nearest arm or ribs. At Aqueduct, guys who know him from somewhere keep coming up for bouts of camaraderie. Jimmy loves it. Unlike Lauren Bacall, he will never be stumped to think of a friend who is not famous. "I have friends from 15 years - guys I played ball with...