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...crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family. Would he ever return to the Dominican Republic? Generalissimo Héctor Trujillo was asked. He answered nonchalantly, sure: "After all, it's our country...
...White and Currens were the coronary arteries. These were two to three times the normal size, but far from being free of disease. Between the layers of the arterial tubes were fibrous areas and atherosclerotic deposits, some of them calcified. At several points, these deposits cut down the bore of the artery by as much as 30%, but that is plainly far better than the total stoppage that occurs in many heart attacks. The doctors cannot be sure whether DeMar inherited big coronaries or grew them by running. What is certain and significant is that moderate coronary disease...
...Manhattan Lawyer Frank Davidson, 43. Appalled by a rough Channel crossing in 1956, Davidson was the moving spirit in setting up the prestigious Channel Tunnel Study Group, consisting of his own Technical Studies Inc., a pair of venerable British and French companies associated with an 1881 attempt to bore a commercial tunnel, and the Suez Co., which, stripped of its canal, has become an investment company...
Poor Little Mexican. Gonzalez, a suave stumper who likes to drop tidbits from classical literature into his speeches, bore down heavily on his pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
...that Thurber considered himself, half correctly, a rough, bruising satirist. "I am in a corner without being backed there," he wrote, "and I often come out fighting." To be thought a nice, lovable old character must have been as hard to endure as the slow onset of blindness. He bore both afflictions with dignity...