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...year-old First Lady learned of her health problem on Oct. 6, after doctors found a "suspicious lesion" in her breast when she had her annual mammogram. The discovery marked the second serious bout with cancer for the Reagans in recent years. In July 1985 the President had surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his colon; since then he has undergone minor operations to remove basal-cell skin cancers from his nose. Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said simply, "I guess it's my turn...
...bout with the Penn poison was brief and painful. Like the 130 football fans, I could not sleep the night after the Penn-Cornell game. And it wasn't because I was excitedly replaying the events of the 17-13 Big Red upset...
...while the gridders were successful this weekend--controlling the 'bone and emerging with a 27-24 upset over the Huskies--Harvard's previous bout with the 'bone met with markedly different results...
...Founder and Rock Pioneer Sam Phillips) and three good ole boys (Elvis, Lead Guitarist Scotty Moore, Bass Player Bill Black) groping toward greatness. "That's fine," says Sam Phillips after one take on Blue Moon of Kentucky. "Hell, that's different. That's a pop song now, nearly 'bout." All the difference, and all the history, hovered around that "nearly." It took a while, but that new territory was finally called rock 'n' roll, and after a time, it looked like it might shut Elvis...
...skirmishes showed why. In a nighttime raid, Iraqi warplanes bombed several Iranian tankers near Kharg Island. A day later an Iranian gunboat hurled nearly a score of rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S.-operated Liberian tanker off the Kuwaiti coast; no casualties were reported. The attacks followed a bout of muscle flexing between the U.S. and Iran. Soon after Iran tested a Chinese-made Silkworm missile at the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy held its own drill, launching planes from a carrier in the Gulf of Oman...