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Twelve doctors had rushed into the emergency room. Surgeon Charles J. Carrico was the first to examine Kennedy. Says the Warren report: "He noted that the President was blue-white or ashen in color; had slow, spasmodic, agonal respiration without any coordination; made no voluntary movements; had his eyes open with the pupils dilated without any reaction to light; evidenced no palpable pulse; and had a few chest sounds that were thought to be heartbeats. On the basis of these findings, Dr. Carrico concluded that President Kennedy was still alive." But, added the report, "his condition was hopeless...
...sightseeing clearly tired the ailing, 67-year-old Chou. For the first time, Westerners noticed that he has only partial use of his right arm, which was usually clutched tightly over his stomach. At one point, after climbing a flight of stairs at an Aswan power station, the ashen-faced Premier staggered off into a corner as if he were about to faint...
...Macmillan felt it was his duty to be present. From the front-bench aisle seat that is traditionally reserved for former Prime Ministers, Macmillan finally rose to deliver his last, compellingly honest words on the case that came near to toppling his government last summer. Though gaunt and ashen-faced from his recent illness, 69-year-old Harold Macmillan threw back his shoulders with the kind of dignity under attack that comes instinctively to the Old Guardsman. "Of course," he said, "I was deceived. That must always be for me and for the whole House a great sorrow." Soon afterward...
Frank Sr. got the news at his big home in Palm Springs, 400 miles away, and turned ashen. He said later that he had once worried constantly about kidnapers, but that he hadn't thought about it for years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm...
...aria from "La Traviata." As the last notes hang amid marble frescoes high above, the band is still heard outside in the blazing courtyard. And while the villagers push and shove for a view, the Prince and his family sit in special pews near the altar, their faces ashen frm the dust, their heads hanging limply from their necks, their eyes bulging with fatigue...