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Edna's healing power develops after a disastrous automobile causes her to cross the brink of death. While on the operating table, she seems to hover over herself, watching the proceedings. Then she relives the crash. As the windshield shatters, geometeric patterns radiate in her field of vision. Bells chime. Light diffusing from a central source creates a tunnel. Shadowy forms of people she vaguely remembers seem to talk to her and guide her toward the light. In the distance a figure stands facing her, casually slinging a jacket over his shoulder. It's her husband, who died...
...collect Coke bottles and put them in the basement. You never know when you'll never money. I get 20 cents for the big bottles, 10 for the small ones." --LAURIE BRINK, U OF TENNESSEE...
DIED. Thomas F. ("Sandy") Richardson, 73, a member of the famed Brink's gang that made off with $2.8 million in Boston 30 years ago, including enough in currency ($1.2 million) to make it the largest cash holdup in U.S. history at the time; of cancer; in South Weymouth, Mass. Richardson, a sometime longshoreman, was one of eleven men charged with the crime in 1956, only five days before the state statute of limitations would have...
Stunned by the swift, six-minute sentencing, relatives of the defendants burst into an impassioned chorus of the national anthem. Plainclothes police hastily dragged them from the courtroom. Kim, pale and wan from 60 days of solitary confinement and constant interrogation that he said had driven him to the brink of insanity, attempted to smile bravely as he was led away. The immediate reaction in South Korea, still under tight martial law, was muted. But the verdict evoked outrage in other countries. In Japan, trade unions and student organizations mounted a series of protest demonstrations. In West Germany, Foreign Minister...
...exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either. The genre may be about to expand, however. With the victory of Psychiatrist James A. McDermott over Dixy Lee Ray in the Washington State Democratic primary last week, the country trembles on the brink of having its first psychiatrist Governor. Dr. McDermott has offered himself as a "Governor who listens," and when a psychiatrist says a thing like that it is not mere political cant. But are the people prepared, emotionally, for his succession? Already, questions are beginning to haunt the air like irrational fears: Will the Governor...