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...morning. He has an arrested case of osteomyelitis in his left leg. The cartilage is gone from his right knee. His right shoulder has been weak since 1957, when he collided with Red Schoendienst at second base. He has twisted innumerable muscles, and during the 1961 World Series, he bled through his uniform from an abscess on his hip. There is no telling how good a healthy Mickey Mantle might have been. Crippled, he has been good enough to win a triple crown (batting, home runs, RBIs) in 1956, to hit .365 in 1957, to clout 54 homers...
Enemies of the Kurds have always had a hard time of it, from Xenophon and his ten thousand Greeks in 400 B.C., through Persians, Mongols, Turks, Crusaders, Arabs and British, up to this year, when the regime of Iraq's Karim Kassem was bled white by the effort to crush one more uprising of the ever-rebellious Kurds...
...pints a day. "As we began to use up our reserves," says Dr. Hill, "we had to turn to other sources. We bor rowed blood, we bought it, finally we made a public plea for donors." Volunteers turned up by the score. Prison inmates from Texas and Oklahoma bled freely for the sick boy. So did G.I.'s from nearby military camps. Home in Muskogee, the high school student council raised $5,000; with churches, civic clubs, even a barnstorming pro basketball team pitching in. And still Fred's condition deteriorated...
...jailed by the Nazis for protesting against the roundup of Hungary's Jews. After the war. he fought the Communist takeover of his country, and in 1949 was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed by the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Mindszenty fled to the U.S. legation in Budapest, and there he has stayed, a stubborn symbol of Christianity's incompatibility with Communism...
...protection and defense of the liege King" and they were commonly known as the King's Persons, Jews were nevertheless outcasts in a Christian society that viewed them as heretics. They were prohibited from owning land or holding titles, and lived by the illegal profession of moneylending. Bled by royal taxes, the barons and priests were forced to mortgage their lands to the moneylenders for gold and silver...